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RISDM 34-157.tif

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Common Kingfisher and Doublefile Viburnum (Yabudemari ni kawasemi), Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

Title

Common Kingfisher and Doublefile Viburnum (Yabudemari ni kawasemi)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 34.3 x 11.4 cm (13 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, top left: 3994/Hiroshige/20[m] [Hy ez];in a later hand verso, bottom left: 215/9; in another hand verso, bottom right: 208Poem: Kawasemi ya/hane o yosoute/mizu kagamiThe kingfisher-/preening his feathers/in a mirror of waterKawasemi is a season word (kigo) for summer. The poem also alludes to a man preening himselfbefore meeting a woman symbolized by the iris. Hiroshige employs the same poem on other prints in the collection with similar imagery.

Signature: Signed at lower right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô); censor's seal | kiwame | above publisher's seal

Place

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

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.157

About

Common Kingfisher and Doublefile Viburnum (Yabudemari ni kawasemi)

Inscription verso, top left: 3994/Hiroshige/20[m] [Hy ez];in a later hand verso, bottom left: 215/9; in another hand verso, bottom right: 208Poem: Kawasemi ya/hane o yosoute/mizu kagamiThe kingfisher-/preening his feathers/in a mirror of waterKawasemi is a season word (kigo) for summer. The poem also alludes to a man preening himselfbefore meeting a woman symbolized by the iris. Hiroshige employs the same poem on other prints in the collection with similar imagery.

Signature: Signed at lower right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô); censor's seal | kiwame | above publisher's seal

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

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