New Year’s Eve, Foxfires by the Nettle Tree at Oji, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)

9th month, 1857

Asian Art

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Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome wood block print

Dimensions

sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 5/8 in. (36.4 × 24.4 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1955.9.4

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. William H. Moore (Ada Small Moore) (1858–1955), New York; bequest in 1955 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • George J. Lee, Edo Culture in Japanese prints, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 42, no. 13
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 251, no. 465, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

Publisher's seal mark: Shitaya Uoei 下谷魚栄 (rectangular, relief, lower left margin)\r\nCensor's seal marks: Mi ku 巳九 (9th month 1857, year of the snake) (oval, relief, lower left margin) & Aratame 改 (round, relief, lower left margin)\r\n

Inscriptions

Meisho Edo hyakkei: Ōji Shōzoku Enoki, Ōmisoka no Kitsunebi 名所江戸百景 王子装束ゑの木 大晦日の狐火 (upper right)

Signed

“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (lower right)

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