Image

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Yellow Bird and Japanese Iris (Hanashôbu ni kôchô), Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

Title

Yellow Bird and Japanese Iris (Hanashôbu ni kôchô)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Plate: 33.2 x 11.4 cm (13 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom right:X4118 [Japanese Characters]Poem: Kinou made/yoso ni omoishi/ayamegusa/kyô waga yado no/tsuma to miru kanaThe iris-until yesterday I thought she was distant but today she and I are oneThe iris, symbolizing a woman, the man believed distant; today she is his wife. The Kobayashi botanist states that the flower in Hiroshige's image is not ayame as in the poem, but hanashôbu.

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.163

About

Yellow Bird and Japanese Iris (Hanashôbu ni kôchô)

Inscription verso, bottom right:X4118 [Japanese Characters]Poem: Kinou made/yoso ni omoishi/ayamegusa/kyô waga yado no/tsuma to miru kanaThe iris-until yesterday I thought she was distant but today she and I are oneThe iris, symbolizing a woman, the man believed distant; today she is his wife. The Kobayashi botanist states that the flower in Hiroshige's image is not ayame as in the poem, but hanashôbu.

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Use

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