Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Plovers Flying Over Waves (Nami ni chidori), Edo (Japanese period)

Maker

Title

Plovers Flying Over Waves (Nami ni chidori)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 34 x 11.4 cm (13 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom right corner: R925

Poem:
Futa takumu/yowa ya chidori no/shikiri naku

Conniving in pairs/at midnight hear the plovers/piping endlessly

Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu

Identification

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.

Place

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

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.138

Plovers Flying Over Waves (Nami ni chidori)

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.

Inscription verso, bottom right corner: R925

Poem:
Futa takumu/yowa ya chidori no/shikiri naku

Conniving in pairs/at midnight hear the plovers/piping endlessly

Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu

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