Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Swallows and peach blossoms under a full moon.
Call Number
E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01169
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cv43nw93s
Publisher
Japan : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1797-1858
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39.5 x 17.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
Censor's seal: kiwame.
Date of original print: Early 1830s.
Format: Ôtanzaku tate-e.
Inscribed [poem]: Spring has come and all the streams are filled with peach blossoms. Nobody knows where Heaven is but all wonder. -- Translated by Alfred H. Marks.
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
Sealed: Ichiryûsai.
Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.

Discovery Information

Subject
Birds—Japan—In art
Moon—In art
Night—Japan—In art
Swallows—Japan—In art
Japanese poetry—Illustrations
Peach—Japan—In art
Flowering trees—Japan—In art
Japanese literature—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8d82f973-2bf5-4daf-b822-0f739923073c/manifest