Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), Edo (Japanese period)

Maker

Title

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 38.7 x 17.6 cm (15 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription UR.

[text and poems]
Hatsu hinode (translates to) As New Year's Day dawns,
kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down
nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation.

Signature: Signature at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai

Identification

State

The first state without publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei with gradated red in sun and other colors. Gookin is quoted in the cat. file as remarking about 34.277.2 "finest impression I have yet seen save that in the Buckingham Collection [Art Inst. Chicago]," December 1922.

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.277.2

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)

Inscription UR.

[text and poems]
Hatsu hinode (translates to) As New Year's Day dawns,
kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down
nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation.

Signature: Signature at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
The first state without publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei with gradated red in sun and other colors. Gookin is quoted in the cat. file as remarking about 34.277.2 "finest impression I have yet seen save that in the Buckingham Collection [Art Inst. Chicago]," December 1922.

Exhibition History

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