Sunset at Nojima, from the series Eight Views of Kanazawa

ca. 1835–39

Medium: Ukiyo-e: Polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/4 × 14 in. (22.2 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line: Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
Accession Number: 1973.42.16
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Frances Gaylord Smith (Mrs. George T. Smith) Collection; by descent to nephew Gaylord Donnelley (1910–1992) and Dorothy Ranney Donnelley (1910–2002); loaned in 1969, and given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1973

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Ichiryū-sai 壱立斎 (square, relief, upper right after the signature)\r\nPublisher’s seal mark: Shiba Koshihei 司馬越平 (rectangular, relief, centre right margin)\r\nCensor’s seal mark: Kiwame 極 (round, relief, centre right margin above the publisher’s mark)\r\n

Inscriptions

Kanazawa Hakkei: Nojima no Sekishō 金澤八景 (red horizontal)　野島夕照 (upper centre)\r\nPoem: “Yū ni (hi?) sasu/ Nojima no ura ni/ hosu ami no/ me narabu ami no/ ama no ieie” \r\n夕に(日?)さ須　野嶋の浦尓　本す阿三の　め那ら婦里乃　あ万乃家々\r\nThe evening sun aglow/ along the bay of Nojima,/ fish nets are drying/ lined up in the village,/ at the houses of abalone divers.\r\n

Signed

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

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