Image
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud (Himekaidô to tsubame), Edo Period
Description
Title
Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud (Himekaidô to tsubame)
Year
Edo Period
Medium
ink, color
Materials/Techniques
Techniques
Supports
Dimensions
Image: 38.3 x 13.2 cm (15 1/16 x 5 3/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
Poem:
Yama no ha ni/tsubame* o kaesu/irihi kana
At the mountain's edge/the swallows are sent to bed/by the setting sun
Signature: Signed lower right | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai; publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô); censor's seal | kiwame
Identification
Edition
Bogel mentions the later edition published by Fujiokaya Hikotaro illustrated in Richard Lane, Masters of the Japanese Print (London, 1962), no. 135.
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.226
About
Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud (Himekaidô to tsubame)
Bogel mentions the later edition published by Fujiokaya Hikotaro illustrated in Richard Lane, Masters of the Japanese Print (London, 1962), no. 135.
Poem:
Yama no ha ni/tsubame* o kaesu/irihi kana
At the mountain's edge/the swallows are sent to bed/by the setting sun
Signature: Signed lower right | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai; publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô); censor's seal | kiwame
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Use
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