Utagawa Hiroshige I

A Cuckoo Flying over Ship's Masts (Hobashira to hototogisu)

Utagawa Hiroshige's original woodcut, A Cuckoo Flying over Ships' Masts is a masterpiece of his koban sized kacho-e. As with the great landscape art of Utagawa Hiroshige I, so much is suggested with so little. A number of these great works also contain accompanying poetry, particularly in the Haiku form. During his productive career Utagawa Hiroshige I designed single sheet woodcuts as well as illustrations for books. Depictions of birds, flowers, insects and animals range in size from Kakemono-e (double oban) to koban (quarter block). Almost all were created between 1830 and 1840. This original Utagawa Hiroshige woodcut is printed upon early 19th century Japanese mulberry Bearing the artist's red 'Ichiryusai' seal under his signature of 'Hiroshige ga'. A Cuckoo Flying over Ships' Masts is a fine, original example of the famous woodcut art of Hiroshige.

A Cuckoo Flying over Ship's Masts (Hobashira to hototogisu)

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Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japan, 1797 - 1858)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Publisher, Series, Signatures & Seals	Raisonne & Reference	-
01.-		A Cuckoo Flying over Ship's Masts (Hobashira to hototogisu) by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	c. 1835	Publisher: Jakurindo, Artist's red 'Ichiryusai' seal under his signature of 'Hiroshige ga'	C. J. Bogel & I. Goldman, Hiroshige, Birds and Flowers, New York, George Braziller Inc., & the Rhode Island School of Design, 1988. Catalogue #89. (Illustrated opposite page.)	Sold
02.-		Biwa-Hoshi On The Tokaido Road Near Maisaka (Series: The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by two Brushes) by Kunisada I and by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	c. 1854 - 1857	Publisher: Maruya Kishuro, Series: Sohitsu gojusan tsugi (The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by two Brushes)	Edward F. Strange, Hiroshige's Woodblock Prints, Dover Books, Toronto, 1983 (First published, 1925). Catalogue # 31 of the series and deals with the station of Maisaka	Sold
03.-		Hara (Series: The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road) by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	1840	Publisher: Sanoki, Series: Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no Uchi (The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road)	Edward F. Strange, Hiroshige's Woodblock Prints, Dover Books, Toronto, 1983 (First published, 1925). Catalogue #14	Sold
04.-		Namazu (Series: The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road) by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	1840	Publisher: Sanoki, Series: Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no Uchi (The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road)	Edward F. Strange, Hiroshige's Woodblock Prints, Dover Books, Toronto, 1983 (First published, 1925). Catalogue #13	Sold
05.-		Narumi (Series: The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by two Brushes) by Kunisada I and by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	c. 1854 - 1857	Publisher: Maruya Kishuro, Series: Sohitsu gojusan tsugi (The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by two Brushes)	Edward F. Strange, Hiroshige's Woodblock Prints, Dover Books, Toronto, 1983 (First published, 1925). Catalogue #41	Sold
06.-		Wild Geese Flying Across a Crescent Moon (Mikazuki ni gan) by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	c. 1835	Publisher: Jakurindo, Artist's red 'Ichiryusai' seal under his signature of 'Hiroshige ga'	C. J. Bogel & I. Goldman, Hiroshige, Birds and Flowers, New York, George Braziller Inc., & the Rhode Island School of Design, 1988. Catalogue #90	Sold
07.-		Woman Fulling Cloth (Series of Figure Sketches) by Utagawa Hiroshige I	Original Woodcut	c. 1820 - 1825	Artist's red 'Ichiryusai' seal under his signature of 'Hiroshige ga'	In 1820 Hiroshige designed a series of eight woodcuts, each of which dealt with a visual comparison of women with scenery.	Sold

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Title:	A Cuckoo Flying over Ship's Masts (Hobashira to hototogisu)
Artist:	Hiroshige I, Utagawa (Japan, 1797 - 1858)
Date:	c. 1835
Medium:	Original Japanese Woodcut
Publisher:	Jakurindo
Signature:	Hiroshige ga (with Artist seal: Ichiryusai)
Note:	“Hiroshige died in 1858, only ten years before the historical end of the Edo period. With him passed the special vision of the natural world that he gave the Ukiyo-e image. No one who has admired plums or camellias blooming in the snow, or geese silhouetted against a full moon on an autumn night, can mistake the poetic spirit that imbues Hiroshige's kacho-e images for anything less than the natural splendour they portray.” *
	Undoubtedly, the two greatest masters of Japanese landscape art and woodcuts of birds and flowers (kacho-e) are Utagawa Hiroshige I and Hokusai. Hiroshige --perhaps the most lyrical landscape artist of any time -- was born into a low ranking Samurai family in the capital city of Edo. He became a pupil of Toyohiro at the age of fifteen and studied the art of the Utagawa School. He started his career as a book illustrator and then turned to portrayals of beautiful women. It wasn't until seeing Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji that Hiroshige turned to his famous landscape art.
	During his productive career Utagawa Hiroshige I designed about 10,000 single sheet woodcuts as well as several hundred illustrations for books. Depictions of birds, flowers, insects and animals total almost 500. These range in size from Kakemono-e (double oban) to koban (quarter block). Almost all were created between 1830 and 1840. A number of these great works also contain accompanying poetry, particularly in the Haiku form. Both the Museum of Modern Art, Boston, Accession Number: 218602, and the RISD Museum of Art, include an impression of theis original woodcut in its permanent collections, Collection: Asian Art (1484).
	A Cuckoo Flying over Ships' Masts is a masterpiece of Hiroshige's koban sized kacho-e. As with his great landscape art, so much is suggested with so little. The Haiku poem to the left reads; Ho bashira no -- The shipmasts' neighbours Tonari mo joryu -- are of the highest water Hototogisu. --cuckoo, for instance
Raisonne:	* C. J. Bogel & I. Goldman, Hiroshige, Birds and Flowers, New York, George Braziller Inc., & the Rhode Island School of Design, 1988. Catalogue #89. (Illustrated opposite page.)
Reference:	* C. J. Bogel & I. Goldman, Hiroshige, Birds and Flowers, New York, George Braziller Inc., & the Rhode Island School of Design, 1988. (Quotation taken from p. 25.)
Size:	3 3/4 X 6 1/4 O-tanzaku (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon early nineteenth century Japanese mulberry (rice) paper and with margins cropped to the image on all sides. Containing one very small (restored) tear in the margin to right of Hiroshige's signature. Bearing the artist's red 'Ichiryusai' seal under his signature of 'Hiroshige ga'. A strongly printed impression with dominating green, brown and black colors and in good condition throughout. A Cuckoo Flying over Ships' Masts represents a superb, original example of the famous woodcut art of Utagawa Hiroshige I.
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