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1861
56.100A-C
Not currently on view
A. (Left) 14-3/4 x 10-3/16 in. B. (Center) 14-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. C. (Right) 14-3/4 x 9-7/8 in.
A) Signed by artist, leftmost sheet: Hiroshige ga A) Publisher's mark: Mori-ya Jihei A) Censor's date seal: 1861, 3rd month A) Engraver's mark: Hori Mino B) Signed by artist, center sheet: Toyokuni ga B) Publisher's mark: Mori-ya Jihei B) Censor's date seal: 1861, 3rd month B) Engraver's mark: Hori Mino
Carl H. Lieber Memorial Fund
Purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1956.
Kunisada and Ando Hiroshige were probably the most popular of all ukiyoe artists in the middle nineteenth century, so a collaboration by the two of them was always an event. Hiroshige died in 1858, but his successor -Hiroshige II- continued occasional joint efforts with Kunisada, combining what public loved most: Kunisada's decorative figures and Hiroshige's romantic landscapes.
Hiro II especially poetic here. Languid line of birds across the moon, understated landscape, and device of moon reflected set a tranquil mood. Long oval faces and elaborate kimono are classic Kunisada. Male figure probably Genji, struck by the scene and about to compose a poem to describe it.
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