Evening Bell at Mii Temple, from the series Eight Views of Lake Biwa, No. 4

19th century

Asian Art

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Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: 9 1/8 × 13 3/4 in. (23.2 × 34.9 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1950.519
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1950; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Louisa Cunningham, The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984), 53–54, no. 16, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Kiwame take 極竹 (Hōei-dō, Takeuchi Magohachi 保永堂　竹内孫八) (gourd-shaped, upper left after the signature)

Inscriptions

Mii no Banshō 三井晩鐘 (upper right)\r\nŌmi Hakkei no uchi 近江八景之内 (upper right)\r\nPoem: “Omou sono/ akatsuki chigiru/ hajime zo to/ mazu kiku Mii no/ iriai no kane” 思ふ曽の暁ちぎる　者し免楚登　ま川きく三井乃　入あい乃可年 (upper far right, alongside with the title)\r\n

Signed

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

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