Image
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), Edo (Japanese period)
Description
Maker
Title
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)
Year
Edo (Japanese period)
Medium
ink, color
Materials/Techniques
Dimensions
Image: 35.4 x 17.1 cm (13 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: 323
[text and poems] Hatsu hinode (translates to) As New Year's Day dawns,
kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down
nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation.
Signature: Signature at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai
Identification
State
The first state without publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei with gradated red in sun and other colors. Gookin is quoted in the cat. file as remarking about 34.277.2 "finest impression I have yet seen save that in the Buckingham Collection [Art Inst. Chicago]," December 1922.
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.277.1
About
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)
Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: 323
[text and poems] Hatsu hinode (translates to) As New Year's Day dawns,
kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down
nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation.
Signature: Signature at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
The first state without publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei with gradated red in sun and other colors. Gookin is quoted in the cat. file as remarking about 34.277.2 "finest impression I have yet seen save that in the Buckingham Collection [Art Inst. Chicago]," December 1922.
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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