Utagawa Hiroshige and Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô)
Abalone, Needlefish and Peach Blossoms
c. 1832
Scroll
- Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
- Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô)
Abalone, Needlefish and Peach Blossoms
c. 1832
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut with mica, Sheet: 227 x 353 mm. (8 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the Great Fish Series
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
2012.177
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Joan B. Mirviss, New York, 2012; Brewster Hanson Collection, Geneva
Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, "Approaching the Horizon: Important Japanese Prints from the Brewster Hanson Collection," March 15 - April 14, 2012.
Inscribed: Lower left: artist's signature, Ichiryusai Hiroshige ga, and seal "Ichiryusai"; publisher's seal; censer's kiwame date seal. Upper right: poem, "Haliotus tuberculate; Hemirhamphus sayori/On rocks and sand and rinsing waves/The jewel, abalone, polishes itself.//The kimono padding comes out now that spring is here/And the sayori is cleaned for a springtime feast.//I would love to be transformed into a creature thin enough/to follow the abalone into the cracks of rocks."
