Swallows and peach blossoms under a full moon.

Woodcutter
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
Japan : [s.n.], n.d.
Description
1 item ; sheet 39.5 x 17.7 cm.

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2008.01169 E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
    • Censor's seal: kiwame.
    • Date of original print: Early 1830s.
    • Format: Ôtanzaku tate-e.
    • Inscribed [poem]: Spring has come and all the streams are filled with peach blossoms. Nobody knows where Heaven is but all wonder. -- Translated by Alfred H. Marks.
    • Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
    • Sealed: Ichiryûsai.
    • Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.
    Source acquisition
    Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
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