Image
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Plovers and Waves under the Moon (Gekka nami ni chidori), Edo Period
Description
Title
Plovers and Waves under the Moon (Gekka nami ni chidori)
Year
Edo Period
Medium
ink, color
Materials/Techniques
Dimensions
Image: 32.4 x 11 cm (12 3/4 x 4 5/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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
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)
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.139
About
Plovers and Waves under the Moon (Gekka nami ni chidori)
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)
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
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
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