Kōya in Ki’i Province, from the series Six Jewel Rivers in Old Poems

19th century

Medium: Ukiyo-e: Polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25 × 18.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917
Accession Number: 1967.64.68
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Nakabashi Matsukawa-chō Muraichi 中者し　松川丁　村市 (rectangular, relief, lower centre)\r\nCensor’s seal mark: Muramatsu 村松 (round, relief, lower left alongside with the signature)\r\n

Inscriptions

Koka Mu Tama-gawa: Ki’i Kōya 古歌六玉河　紀伊高埜 (upper left)\r\nPoem: “Wasure te mo/ kumi ya shi tsu ramu/ tabi-bito no/ Takano no oku no/ Tama-gawa no mizu” 王すれても　汲やしつらむ　多び人乃　高のゝおく能　玉河乃三川 (upper left)\r\nEven if you forgot/ scoop it up/ travellers/ the water of the Jewel River/ in the depth of Kōya.\r\n(trans. temporary)\r\n

Signed

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

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