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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: POEM BY KIYOHARA NO MOTOSUKE, WANKYU
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2024年01月17日 开拍 / 2024年01月15日 截止委托
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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: POEM BY KIYOHARA NO MOTOSUKE, WANKYU

By Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), signed Hiroshige ga with chrysanthemum seal
Japan, 1845

Color woodblock print on paper. Vertical oban. Signed Hiroshige ga with chrysanthemum seal, censor's seal: Watari; publisher Ibaya Senzaburo. Titled Poem by Kiyohara no Motosuke, Wankyu, number 42 from the series Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets, One Poem Each).

Depicting the poor Wankyu dancing with a fan in his right hand and a pole over his shoulder from which hang a gourd and a long scroll, with poem by Kiyowara no Motosuke.

Inscriptions: Inscribed, 'Chigiriki na/ katami ni sode o/ shiboritsutsu/ Sue no matsuyama/ nami kosaji to wa' (Our sleeves were wet with tears/ As pledges that our love/ Will last until/ Over Sue's Mount of Pines/ Ocean waves are breaking).

SIZE of the sheet 35.5 x 24 cm

Condition: Good condition with minor wear and slight browning of paper. Fading of colors, slightly trimmed margins, a centerfold with reinforcements, and minor creasing.
Provenance: A Viennese private collection. Galerie Zacke, Vienna, 5 October 2013, lot 48. An Austrian private collection, acquired from the above.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858), also known as Ando Hiroshige, is recognized as one of the last great masters of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) woodblock printing tradition. His style can be characterized in the genre of landscape print, innovated by his early contemporary Hokusai (1760-1849). Hiroshige can be attributed to having created over 5,000 prints of everyday life and landscape in Edo-period Japan. Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai's popular Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Hiroshige took a softer, less formal approach with his Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (1833-1834), completed after a trip he made between Edo and Kyoto, which is acclaimed to be perhaps his finest achievement.

He made numerous other journeys within Japan and issued a series of such prints, expressing in great detail the poetic sensibility inherent in the climate and topography of Japan and its people. Hiroshige's prolific output was somewhat due to his being paid very little per series. Still, this did not deter him, as he receded to Buddhist monkhood in 1856 to complete his brilliant and lasting One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856-58). He died in 1858, 10 years before Monet, Van Gogh, and a lot of Impressionist painters became eager collectors of Japanese art.

Museum comparison:
A closely related woodblock print is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1969,0414,0.13.

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