Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Long-tailed Bird and Plum, Edo Period

Maker

Title

Long-tailed Bird and Plum

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Ōtanzakuban: 37.8 x 17.9 cm (14 7/8 x 7 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription Text/Poem: 一樹独先天下春
Translation: One solitary early plum blossom, And the whole world has spring;
(Translation from Alfred H. Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, 1988)

Signature: 廣重筆 Hiroshige hitsu (Brushed by Hiroshige)

Seals: Designer's seal: 幽斎 Yūsai; Publisher's seal: 若林堂 Jakurindō (若狭屋与市 Wakasaya Yoichi); Censor's seal: 極 kiwame; other seal to right of poem: 大当 ōatari (big hit)

Marks: On verso, at bottom left: 1712, at bottom right: [No.] 217/15.22

Identification

State

First state.

Edition

Bogel entry remarks that the Rockefeller collection exchanged a second-edition print published by Sanoya Kihei for this one.

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.290

Long-tailed Bird and Plum

Bogel entry remarks that the Rockefeller collection exchanged a second-edition print published by Sanoya Kihei for this one.

Inscription Text/Poem: 一樹独先天下春
Translation: One solitary early plum blossom, And the whole world has spring;
(Translation from Alfred H. Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, 1988)

Signature: 廣重筆 Hiroshige hitsu (Brushed by Hiroshige)

Seals: Designer's seal: 幽斎 Yūsai; Publisher's seal: 若林堂 Jakurindō (若狭屋与市 Wakasaya Yoichi); Censor's seal: 極 kiwame; other seal to right of poem: 大当 ōatari (big hit)

Marks: On verso, at bottom left: 1712, at bottom right: [No.] 217/15.22

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
First state.

Exhibition History

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