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花菖蒲に白鷺
White Heron and Iris
花菖蒲に白鷺
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about early 1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Ôtanzaku; 37.3 x 16.3 cm (14 11/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.130
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #197; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #s 7-8; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #s 79, 257; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #7.4
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1159, 21.6826, 21.7908, 21.7909, 47.130
The Chinese poem reads:
White herons fly low across the fields, like a thousand flakes of snow;
Yellow birds perch on the tree, like flowers clustered on a branch.
The Chinese poem reads:
White herons fly low across the fields, like a thousand flakes of snow;
Yellow birds perch on the tree, like flowers clustered on a branch.
Signed
Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
広重筆
InscriptionsChinese poem
白鷺下田千點雪 黄鴬上樹一枝花
白鷺下田千點雪 黄鴬上樹一枝花
Provenance1947, gift of Lucy Truman Aldrich (b. 1869 - d. 1955), Providence, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 13, 1947)