Swallows and Wild Cherry Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Asian Art

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Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: 5 × 14 3/4 in. (12.7 × 37.5 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift
Accession Number: 1948.87
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Private Collection, New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1948

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Ichiryū-sai 一立斎 (round, relief, lower right)\r\nPublisher’s seal mark: Kawamasa 川正 (rectangular, intaglio, upper left)\r\nCensor’s seal mark: Kiwame 極 (round, relief, upper left)\r\n

Inscriptions

Poem: “Yama no ha ni/ tsubame wo kaesu/ irihi kana” 山の端耳　乙鳥越可へ寿　入日哉\r\nOver the mountain ridge, the setting sun sets like swallows’ return in flight.

Signed

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

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