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Lot 33PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Kingfisher and bellflowers
Closed18 June 2020
Price Realised
GBP 3,500
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Specialist note
A kingfisher hovers over bellflowers. The poem above reads:
Asa tsuyu no
wakete ukitatsu
kikyo kana
Is it the bellflower
that emerges from
the morning dew?
For the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 21.9591, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237209/kingfisher-and-bellflowers
And also, for the same print in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), accession no. 34.266, go to:
https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/kingfisher-and-chinese-bellflowers-kikyoni-kawasemi-34266
Asa tsuyu no
wakete ukitatsu
kikyo kana
Is it the bellflower
that emerges from
the morning dew?
For the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 21.9591, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237209/kingfisher-and-bellflowers
And also, for the same print in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), accession no. 34.266, go to:
https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/kingfisher-and-chinese-bellflowers-kikyoni-kawasemi-34266