Image

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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Tree Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Setchû tsubaki ni suzume), Edo Period

Description

Maker

Title

Tree Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Setchû tsubaki ni suzume)

Year

Edo Period

Medium

color, ink

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 38.1 x 17.3 cm (15 x 6 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

White rectangular label affixed verso, bottom left with inscription in pencil: YH474/[Japanese Characters]

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

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Utagawa; publisher's seal | Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô)

Identification

State

Bogel entry remarks that this is the second state with falling snow and blue sky area (see 34.288.2 for fine impression of first state with uniform grey ground also on thick paper). The flaw in the block to right of poem indicates that the same block was used for both states. There is embossing on the breasts of the sparrows. A third state also with grey background has the emblem of the publisher Sanoya Kihei.

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.288.1

About

Tree Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Setchû tsubaki ni suzume)

White rectangular label affixed verso, bottom left with inscription in pencil: YH474/[Japanese Characters]

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

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Utagawa; publisher's seal | Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô)

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Bogel entry remarks that this is the second state with falling snow and blue sky area (see 34.288.2 for fine impression of first state with uniform grey ground also on thick paper). The flaw in the block to right of poem indicates that the same block was used for both states. There is embossing on the breasts of the sparrows. A third state also with grey background has the emblem of the publisher Sanoya Kihei.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

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