Lot 408
408
HIROSHIGE: o-tanzaku (38.5 x 17.5cm.); a trained monkey in a red jacket climbing to the top of a stand under a flowering cherry and falling petals, a Chinese poem at the left, signed Hiroshige hitsu and published by Sanoya Kihei--fine impression, color and condition
HIROSHIGE: o-tanzaku (38.5 x 17.5cm.); a trained monkey in a red jacket climbing to the top of a stand under a flowering cherry and falling petals, a Chinese poem at the left, signed Hiroshige hitsu and published by Sanoya Kihei--fine impression, color and condition

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HIROSHIGE: o-tanzaku (38.5 x 17.5cm.); a trained monkey in a red jacket climbing to the top of a stand under a flowering cherry and falling petals, a Chinese poem at the left, signed Hiroshige hitsu and published by Sanoya Kihei--fine impression, color and condition

Lot Essay

For other impressions see Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 1 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974), no. 3480; Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Hiroshige, vol. 11 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1974), no. 97; and Yamaguchi, ed., Gurabuhon ukiyo-e meihin ten/Grabhorn Collection, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Bunyusha, 1995), no. 97.

Another impression was sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March, 1974, lot 375.