Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Plovers and Waves under the Moon, Edo Period

Maker

Title

Plovers and Waves under the Moon

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Aitanzakuban: 32.8 x 11.1 cm (12 15/16 x 4 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription Text/Poem: 友千鳥 けあけの濱に 月をまり
Translation: A flock of plovers use the moon as a beach ball.

Signature: 廣重筆 Hiroshige hitsu (Brushed by Hiroshige)

Seals: Designer's seal: 一立斎 Ichiryūsai; Publisher's seal: Square cartouche (Sanoya Kihei)

Identification

Edition

Ainsworth, cat. no. 1328 is another impression apparently without publisher's seal but bearing the censor's seal Takano Shinemon, therefore dated to the period 1843-47; Keyes mentions an earlier version in the catalogue of the collection of Alexis Rouart(sold New York, American Art Galleries, 6-7 February 1922, Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Color Prints, The Famous Collection of the Late Alexis Rouart of Paris, France, Together with a Selection from the Collection of Vicomte des Sartiges and a Few Prints from Another Parisian Collection), lot 925, without moon and birds placed closer to the waves (34.135 in RISDM)

Place

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

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.139

Plovers and Waves under the Moon
Plovers and Waves under the Moon (Gekka nami ni chidori)

Ainsworth, cat. no. 1328 is another impression apparently without publisher's seal but bearing the censor's seal Takano Shinemon, therefore dated to the period 1843-47; Keyes mentions an earlier version in the catalogue of the collection of Alexis Rouart(sold New York, American Art Galleries, 6-7 February 1922, Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Color Prints, The Famous Collection of the Late Alexis Rouart of Paris, France, Together with a Selection from the Collection of Vicomte des Sartiges and a Few Prints from Another Parisian Collection), lot 925, without moon and birds placed closer to the waves (34.135 in RISDM)

Inscription Text/Poem: 友千鳥 けあけの濱に 月をまり
Translation: A flock of plovers use the moon as a beach ball.

Signature: 廣重筆 Hiroshige hitsu (Brushed by Hiroshige)

Seals: Designer's seal: 一立斎 Ichiryūsai; Publisher's seal: Square cartouche (Sanoya Kihei)

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