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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)

Description

Maker

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋喜兵衛 (Japanese, 1717-1875), publisher

Title

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1830s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink and color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan

Dimensions

Image: 38.4 x 17.5 cm (15 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, near bottom end in pencil: #13 Hiroshige; in a later hand, verso, bottom center: EGR312[text and poems]Hatsu hinode(translates to) As New Year's Day dawns, kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation. (trans. Marks in Bogel) (*a in Bogel changed to wa)The Amsterdam cat. cited below translates the poem: When the sun first rose in the New Year/there were no boundaries in the nation

Signature: Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai; publisher's seal | Sanoki han

Identification

State

The second state with publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1247

Type

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Tombstone

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Sanoya Kihei 佐野屋喜兵衛 (Japanese, 1717-1875), publisher
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), 1830s
Polychrome wood block print
Image: 38.4 x 17.5 cm (15 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 20.1247

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