Name: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Brand: Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Settchu sazanka ni suzume)
Price: 20000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Settchu sazanka ni suzume)
Woodblock print
Signed Hiroshige hitsu and sealed Utagawa
Published by Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindo), circa early 1830s
With embossing to the wings of the sparrows and to the outlines of the flowers and leaves
Otanzaku: 38.5 x 17.5 cm. (15¹⁄₄ x 6.7.8 in.)

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Lot Essay

The opening lines of the Chinese poem Inquiry of a Stork by Hakurakuten (772-846) has been translated in Cynthea Bogel and Israel Goldman, Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers, (New York, 1998), cat. no. 10-11:

The crow fights with the kite over food;
The sparrows dispute over nests.
You stand alone beside the pond
On a windy, snowy evening.

For a similar impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 06.1238, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/177505/sparrows-and-camellia-in-snow
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