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Sparrows and Camellia in Snow


雪中椿に雀
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1831–33 (Tenpô 2–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 36.5 x 15.5 cm (14 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1389
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #119; Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #108; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #71; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #s 10, 11; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #6.8; Tanba 1965, #84
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1238, 06.1389, 21.7922, 21.7923

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); Forrer, Hiroshige (1997); and Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 312.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Artist's seal: Utagawa
InscriptionsChinese poem
鳥鳶争食雀争巣 独立池辺風雪多
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross