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Utagawa Hiroshige

Morning glories (Asagao), 1843-1847

Description

Maker

Title

Morning glories (Asagao)

Year

1843-1847

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Image: 21.1 x 29.4 cm (8 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.303

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Fan-Shaped Bird and Flower Prints from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

May 11 - June 30, 1990

Morning glories appear in many classical poems. One famous example can be found in episode 37 of Tales of Ise, in which a man who visits a flirtatious lady cautions her with the following poem:

Ware narade/Shitahimo toku na/Asagao no/Yukage matanu/Hana ni wa ari tomo.

Though your affections be ephemeral/As the morning-glory's flower,/Gone before sunset,/ Do not loosen your under­ sash/For anyone but me .

(Translation by Helen C. McCullough in Tales of Ise, Stanford Univ. Press, 1968)

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