Image
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Cricket and Morning Glories (Asagao ni kôrogi), Edo Period
Description
Title
Cricket and Morning Glories (Asagao ni kôrogi)
Year
Edo Period
Medium
color, ink
Materials/Techniques
Dimensions
Image: 37.9 x 12.9 cm (14 15/16 x 5 1/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
Poem:
Asagao ya/akarenu sono hi/sono hi kana
The morning glories/are out today! The morning/glories bloom today
Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô); censor's seal | kiwame
Identification
Edition
Bogel entry remarks that no other impressions of this print appear to exist and that it is fortunate the RISD example is fine, noting particularly the sinuous calligraphy placed beside the twisting vine.
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.234
About
Cricket and Morning Glories (Asagao ni kôrogi)
Bogel entry remarks that no other impressions of this print appear to exist and that it is fortunate the RISD example is fine, noting particularly the sinuous calligraphy placed beside the twisting vine.
Poem:
Asagao ya/akarenu sono hi/sono hi kana
The morning glories/are out today! The morning/glories bloom today
Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô); censor's seal | kiwame
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo
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