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Wading Crane and Trailing Bush Clover


萩に鶴
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 33.9 x 11.4 cm (13 1/3 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.222
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 240, chûtanzaku #10.06
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.7992, 54.222
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Shira tsuyu mo/ kobosanu hagi no/ uneri kana
しら露も こほさぬ萩の うねりかな
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)