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Kingfisher and Hydrangea


紫陽花に川蝉
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 37 x 16.7 cm (14 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.21
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #III.17; San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #193; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #76; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #6.1
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.7902, 21.7903, 47.21

Poem translated in San Francisco 1998, p. 253.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsPoem: Ajisai ya/ mizu ni sakanedo/ mizu kusashi
紫陽花や 水に咲ねと 水くさし
Provenance1947, gift of Lucy Truman Aldrich (b. 1869 - d. 1955), Providence, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 9, 1947)