Image

RISDM 34-290.tif RISDM 34-290.tif

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Long-tailed Bird and Plum (Ume ni tori), Edo Period

Description

Maker

Title

Long-tailed Bird and Plum (Ume ni tori)

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 37.8 x 17.8 cm (14 7/8 x 7 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom left: 1712; in a later hand verso, bottom right: [No.] 217/15.22

Poem:
Hito ume dokusen tenka haru.

One solitary early plum blossom/And the whole world has spring.

Signature: Signed at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Yûsai; publisher's seal | Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô); censor's seal | kiwame; other seal to right of poem | ôatari (big hit)

Identification

State

First state.

Edition

Bogel entry remarks that the Rockefeller collection exchanged a second-edition print published by Sanoya Kihei for this one.

Place

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

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.290

About

Long-tailed Bird and Plum (Ume ni tori)

Bogel entry remarks that the Rockefeller collection exchanged a second-edition print published by Sanoya Kihei for this one.

Inscription verso, bottom left: 1712; in a later hand verso, bottom right: [No.] 217/15.22

Poem:
Hito ume dokusen tenka haru.

One solitary early plum blossom/And the whole world has spring.

Signature: Signed at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Yûsai; publisher's seal | Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô); censor's seal | kiwame; other seal to right of poem | ôatari (big hit)

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
First state.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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