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Lot 32
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Settchu sazanka ni suzume)
Closed18 June 2020
Price Realised
GBP 25,000
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Specialist note
The opening lines of the Chinese poem Inquiry of a Stork by Hakurakuten (772-846) has been translated in Cynthea Bogel and Israel Goldman, Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers, (New York, 1998), cat. no. 10-11:
The crow fights with the kite over food;
The sparrows dispute over nests.
You stand alone beside the pond
On a windy, snowy evening.
For a similar impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 06.1238, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/177505/sparrows-and-camellia-in-snow
The crow fights with the kite over food;
The sparrows dispute over nests.
You stand alone beside the pond
On a windy, snowy evening.
For a similar impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 06.1238, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/177505/sparrows-and-camellia-in-snow