Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Irises and White Heron

Size: 40.0cm by 18.5cm (15.75 in by 7.28 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Ando Hiroshige

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 12,000$ 110.00£ 79.25€ 92.75 [Item has been sold]

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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 perhaps 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 embossing.


The blue pigment residue is from slight carelessness by the printer while putting the paper into the registration marks for printing the background ...

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