Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 24393
Vertical diptych showing a multitude of cranes flying up from a cresting wave to a large red sun
Print by Utagawa Hiroshige, 歌川広重 (Utagawa HIROSHIGE) (1858)
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
- Date / 年代
- 1858
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 849 × 2405 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Prints London
- Published by / 公開者
- 星野アカリ
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Prints London
Catalog note / 解説
A vertical diptych showing a multitude of cranes flying up from a cresting wave to a large red sun. In fact this diptych was used by an Edo publisher as end sheets to albums – usually sets of Hiroshige landscapes. Rare: Invariably it is impossible to match the two sheets as the bottom design is always graded blue at the top. Another matching impression is illustrated pl. 143 in Four Hundred Ukiyoe Woodblock Prints From The Museum Of Art, Rhode Island School Of Design, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection Of Japanese Prints, 1990. Published 5/1858. Fine impression and colour. Small expertly repaired binding holes, otherwise good condition. Collector’s seal bottom right on each sheet. Signed H…
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