White Heron and Irises

Data

White Heron and Irises
Print   (Part of the set: Hiroshige Tanzaku Series)

Hiroshige
Takamizawa
1970s

2019
00043-010
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00043-010

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

A 'wide' tanzaku-ban Hiroshige print in the kacho-e (bird-flower picture) genre. The poem - 白鷺下田千點雪 黄鴬上樹一枝花 - can be rendered: "White herons fly low across the fields, like a thousand flakes of snow; Yellow birds perch on the tree, like flowers clustered on a branch" (translation by the MFA). The feathers of the heron are done with kara-zuri blind-embossing.

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