Image
Description
Maker
- Wakasaya Yoichi, Japanese, publisher
Title
Long-tailed Bird and Plum (Ume ni tori)
Year
1830's
Medium
Polychrome woodblock print with embossing
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Supports
Dimensions
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Image: 37.8 x 17.8 cm (14 7/8 x 7 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Poem:
Hito ume dokusen tenka haru.
One solitary early plum blossom/And the whole world has spring.
(trans. Marks in Bogel)Another interpretation of the Chinese poem is:
Ichiju dokusen tenka no haru.
The plum is the harbinger of spring.Inscription verso, bottom left: 1712; in a later hand verso, bottom right: [No.] 217/15.22
Identification
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State
First state.Edition
Bogel entry remarks that the Rockefeller collection exchanged a second-edition print published by Sanoya Kihei for this one. Place
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Japan; Edo
Type
Credit
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Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
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34.290
Projects & Publications
Publications
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Use
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