Sparrows and Poppies

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Sparrows and Poppies
Print   (Part of the set: Hiroshige Tanzaku Series)

Hiroshige
Takamizawa
1970s

2019
00043-002
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00043-002

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

One of Hiroshige's more simple kacho-e prints in the standardized tanzaku format. Kacho-e (or kacho-ga) basically translates as 'Bird/Flower Picture' and for the most part, that's exactly what we see in each one ... The poem reads: "A bird flying by / poses danger to poppies / with single layers of petals" (translation by John Carpenter).

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