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Hibiscus and Black-naped Oriole


芙蓉に高麗鶯
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
mid 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 37.3 x 12.8 cm (14 11/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1274
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #196; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #27; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #111; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #64
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1274, 11.2151, 21.7977

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in San Francisco 1998, p. 256.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
InscriptionsPoem: Ariake no/ nurete ochitaru/ fuyô kana
有明の ぬれて落たる 芙蓉かな
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross