Image
Description
Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797-1858, b. in Edo, Japan)
Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋喜兵衛 (1717-1875
Title
Plovers and Waves under the Moon (Gekka 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: 32.4 x 11 cm (12 3/4 x 4 5/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Poem: Tomochidori/keage no hama ni/tsuki o mariA flock of plovers/use the moon/as a beach ballThe lines have the literal meanings: a flock of plovers/kick up at the beach/the moon is a ball.
Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai, Publisher's seal | Sanoya Kihei Identification
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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) Credit / Object Number
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Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.139 Type
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Tombstone
Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋喜兵衛 (1717-1875
Edo, Japan), publisher
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