Image
Description
Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Title
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)
Period
Year
Medium
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Materials
ink, colorSupports
Geography
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Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Dimensions
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Image: 38.7 x 17.6 cm (15 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Inscription UR.
[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.
Signature: Signature at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai Identification
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State
The first state without publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei with gradated red in sun and other colors. Gookin is quoted in the cat. file as remarking about 34.277.2 "finest impression I have yet seen save that in the Buckingham Collection [Art Inst. Chicago]," December 1922. Credit / Object Number
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Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.277.2 Type
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Related Objects
Related Objects
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