Image
Description
Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Title
Plovers Flying Over Waves (Nami ni chidori)
Period
Year
Medium
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Materials
ink, colorSupports
Geography
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Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Dimensions
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Image: 34 x 11.4 cm (13 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Inscription verso, bottom right corner: R925
Poem:
Futa takumu/yowa ya chidori no/shikiri nakuConniving in pairs/at midnight hear the plovers/piping endlessly
Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu Identification
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Edition
The Bogel entry states that there is another version of this print with birds flying across the moon and published by Sanoya Kihei (see Tanba, 411). 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. For a version with a larger moon see Sotheby's London (January 1978), lot 117. These two and the example here are printed from different blocks. Both Bogel and Goldman and Roger Keyes (in Ainsworth) caution that differing impressions lacking censor and publisher's seals may signify re-designed prints by Hiroshige or prints copied from extant designs. Credit / Object Number
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Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.138 Type
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