UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858), after, woodblock print. Japan, 'Night Rain at Karasaki', late 19th/early 20th century.
Depicting rain falling on a large pine tree with stakes to support boughs. From the series 'Eight Views of Lake Biwa'. 22,5 x 35 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Discolourations. Faded. With buckled paper.
Provenance
From the collection of Hans Eklund (1921-2018).
Exhibitions
Riksförbundet för bildande konst, Vandringsutställning, 1960, exhibition 209, nr 68.
Literature
RIKSFÖRBUNDET FÖR BILDANDE KONST, JAPANSKA TRÄSNITT, i färg och svart-vitt, från 1600-talets början till 1800-talets mitt, Victor Pettersons Bokindustriaktiebolag, Stockholm, 1960, page 34.
See similar in:
Binyon, Laurence, A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London, UK, BMP, 1916, page 120;
Narazaki, Muneshige; Yamaguchi, Keisaburo, Ukiyo-e shuka, 11, Tokyo, Japan, Shogakkan, 1979, page 180;
Smith, Lawrence, Ukiyoe: Images of Unknown Japan, London, UK, BMP Ltd, 1988, page 181.
More information
See similar one at The British Museum, nr 1907,0531,0.586 and 1941,0208,0.4;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, nr 21.6810, 21.6809, 11.2129, 11.2094, 11.2020, 06.885, 53.2736, 42.567;
Harvard Art Museum, nr 1916.675;
Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, nr JP2849, JP2476, JP1874, JP52;
Honolulu Museum of Art, nr 23217.
The poem in the box roughly translated as:
'Elsewhere will they talk of the music of the evening breeze
that has made fame of the pine of Karasaki;
for the voice of the wind is not heard through the sound of the rain in the night'.