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Pet Monkey and Cherry Blossoms


桜に猿
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 37.8 x 17.5 cm (14 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number55.72
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #122; Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #194; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #1; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #3.4
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.7896, 21.7897, 55.72

The Chinese couplet is from a poem by Ki no Haseo in Wakan rôeishû, translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 316.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsChinese poem
人煙一穏秋村僻 猿叫三聲暁峡深