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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
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Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: Russel #40[text and poems] Inscription remarking on the alternate name of the chrysanthemum okinagusa (old man plant) associated with the legend of Kikujido, The Chrysanthemum Boy. A Chinese boy exiled from the imperial court, he sipped the dew of a valley filled with chrysanthemums for seven hundred years. The inscription also mentions a Chinese poet transliterated as Toenmei.To (macron over the "o") Enmei is the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, Tao Qian (365-427), who is associated with the chrysanthemum. In his poem on "Drinking Wine" (Yin jiu), there is a famous line about plucking chrysanthemums from the eastern hedge.1-25-2007DDG
Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige ga
Seals: Censor's seal | Tanaka Heishiro
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Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku)
Parody of happiness, luck and longevity with collected flowers
Hanazukushi mitate fukurokuju
Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: Russel #40[text and poems] Inscription remarking on the alternate name of the chrysanthemum okinagusa (old man plant) associated with the legend of Kikujido, The Chrysanthemum Boy. A Chinese boy exiled from the imperial court, he sipped the dew of a valley filled with chrysanthemums for seven hundred years. The inscription also mentions a Chinese poet transliterated as Toenmei.To (macron over the "o") Enmei is the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, Tao Qian (365-427), who is associated with the chrysanthemum. In his poem on "Drinking Wine" (Yin jiu), there is a famous line about plucking chrysanthemums from the eastern hedge.1-25-2007DDG
Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige ga
Seals: Censor's seal | Tanaka Heishiro