Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Swallows and peach blossoms under full moon

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Swallows and peach blossoms under full moon
Signed Hiroshige hitsu, sealed in red Ichiryusai, details on birds embossed--very good impression and color, slightly soiled and mottled, light creases, repairs
o-tanzaku: 37.6 x 17.6cm.

Lot Essay

The Chinese poem may be translated,
Spring has come and
peach blossoms float in all the streams--
how impossible to determine where utopia is

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