Rooster on a Snowy Hillside

Details

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Rooster on a Snowy Hillside
Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga, circa 1830s-42
Vertical chutanzaku: 14 7⁄8 x 5 1⁄8 in. (37.8 x 13 cm.)

Provenance

Israel Goldman Japanese Prints, London
Acquired from the above, 2008

Literature

Hiroshige Nature and the City: Prints from the Alan Medaugh Collection (Ludion, 2023). Plate no. 305.
Alfred Haft, Hiroshige: artist of the open road (UK: The British Museum Press, 2025), Exh. cat., Plate 94.

Exhibited

'Hiroshige: artist of the open road', The British Museum, London, 1 May-7 September 2025

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Lot Essay

The poem by Hachijintei Kataki has been read and translated as:
Kinuginu no
hanashi mo imada
tsumoranu ni
tokeko to naku
yuki no niwatori
“The hour of parting/ with all its deep feelings/ in drifts about them/ they hear the melting tones/ of the rooster in the snow". See Cynthea J. Bogel and Israel Goldman, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, (New York, 1988), cat. no. 57.

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