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秋海棠に蜻蛉
Dragonfly and Begonia
秋海棠に蜻蛉
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Chûtanzaku; 37.7 x 13 cm (14 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.951
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CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #107; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #14
DescriptionPoem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988).
Signed
Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
広重筆
Marks
Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
InscriptionsPoem: Shûkaidô/ sono ha wa nani o/ kata-omoi
秋海棠 その葉は何を 片思い
秋海棠 その葉は何を 片思い
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross