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Memorial portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)LinkedCulture matchlcp-99f87fed0f6d
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 24920
Here, Utagawa Hiroshige is depicted as a monk in a Buddhist monastery seated on a cushion. He is dressed in a priestly garb of green and an overgarment of thin, black silk gauze. The lengthy text by Hiroshige’s good friend, writer Tenmei Rojin, gives an account of the artist’s career, ending with Hiroshige’s farewell poem: “Dropping my brush in Azuma [Edo], I go the long journey to the western country [paradise] to view there the wonderful scenery.”
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Judson David Metzgar (1870–1958), Los Angeles and Moline, IL; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, Nov. 13–14, 1916, to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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