Kingfisher Flying over an Iris Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)

1615–1868

Asian Art

Not on view
Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

sheet: 14 1/2 × 5 in. (36.8 × 12.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse

Accession Number

1953.1.11

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. Jared Kirtland Morse (Caroline Roberts Morse) (1907–1982), Cromwell, Conn.; gifted in 1953 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Hiroshige (rectangular with an illustration of a gourd inside, intaglio, lower right after the signature)\r\nPublisher’s seal mark unclear but possibly: Publisher’s seal mark: Shōei-dō ban 正榮堂板 (two marks combined, square, intaglio,centre left) or by Kawashō 川正 \r\nCensor’s seal mark: Kiwame 極 (round, relief, lower left above the publisher’s mark)\r\n

Inscriptions

Poem: “Amadare ni/ sode mo ayame ni/ nioi keri” 雨垂耳　袖毛あや免尓　匂ひ介李\r\n(trans: Rain dripping from the eaves/ drenches our kimono sleeves/ with the fragrance of irises. by John T. Carpenter)\r\n

Signed

“Hiroshige hitsu” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重筆 (lower right)

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