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Utagawa Hiroshige

Turtle [in stream], ca. 1840

Description

Maker

  • Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese
  • Maruya Seijiro, publisher

Title

Turtle [in stream]

Year

ca. 1840

Medium

Woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Plate: 23 x 17.6 cm (9 1/16 x 6 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription at right and above [text and poems]Ryokusui(translates to) Blue water, ryokumousen (translates to) contented strands of blue hair

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.380

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Prints for the Japanese New Year

December 17, 2010 - April 17, 2011

The text on the left compares the tortoise with a Daoist immortal (sennin), thus alluding to the tortoise’s great longevity.

The Lure of Ink

March 6 - July 5, 2009

Prints for the Japanese New Year

December 15, 1995 - March 10, 1996

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Turtle [in stream] with the accession number of 34.380. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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