Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Pheasant and chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kiji), Edo Period

Maker

Title

Pheasant and chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kiji)

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 37.9 x 17.5 cm (14 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

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!

Signature: Signature below | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ryusai | ?; publisher's seal | Jakurindo; censor's seal | kiwame

Identification

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

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.278.1

Pheasant and chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kiji)

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).

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!

Signature: Signature below | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ryusai | ?; publisher's seal | Jakurindo; censor's seal | kiwame

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

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