Image
Description
Maker
- Wakasaya Yoichi, Japanese, publisher
- Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese
Title
Pheasant and chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kiji)
Year
1830's
Medium
Polychrome wood block print with embossing
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Supports
Dimensions
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Image: 37.9 x 17.5 cm (14 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Red circular seal verso, bottom left.Inscription UL
[text and poems]
Kiku no ka ya (translates to ) Chrysanthemum scent--
fukumeru tsuyu no (translates to) every time a drop of dew
chirutabi ni (translates to) drips down from inside! Identification
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Edition
The first edition published by Wakasaya; the collection has an impression of the second state by Sanoya Kihei which lacks the censor's seal, gauffrage and blue ground of this example; the latter has a yellow ground; Bogel entry notes that this print was copied by the Osaka artist Hasegawa Sadanobu in the 1850s with many differences (see Christie's, London, March 1986, lot 115). Place
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Japan; Tokyo
Type
Credit
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Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
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34.278.1
Projects & Publications
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Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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