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Lot 46PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu)
Closed18 June 2020
Price Realised
GBP 3,750
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Specialist note
The kyoka poem in the top left cartouche has been translated by Matthi Forrer and Peter Mason in Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings (London, 1997):
Yuki haruru
Hira no takane no
yugure wa
hana no sakari ni
suguru koro kana
When it clears after snow fall
the tops of Mount Hira
at dusk
surely surpass the beauty
of cherry trees in bloom
For a similar impression in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. JP2848, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60028235
Yuki haruru
Hira no takane no
yugure wa
hana no sakari ni
suguru koro kana
When it clears after snow fall
the tops of Mount Hira
at dusk
surely surpass the beauty
of cherry trees in bloom
For a similar impression in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. JP2848, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60028235