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Item from the Mokuhankan Flea MarketSwallows and Peach Blossoms![]() Size: 40.0cm by 18.0cm (15.75 in by 7.09 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ? Designer: Ando Hiroshige Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / € Price: ![]() Description: Two swallows prepare to land on a branch of a peach blossom tree in this ō-tanzaku by Hiroshige. The flowers are just about to bloom, and the illustration perfectly conveys the promising feeling of the start of spring. The poem reads: "Spring has come and/peach blossoms float in all the streams/how impossible to determine where utopia is" (translation by the RISD Museum). Beautiful kara-zuri blind-embossing has been used to signify the texture of feathers on the bodies of the swallows. ![]() ![]() Browse thumbnail pages of various selections from the catalogue ... Mokuhankan Publications:general (104) kacho-e (27) landscape (54) bijin-ga (19) contemporary (17) senshafuda (2) yakusha-e (4) HangaClub (70) ebook (6) miscellaneous (4) 8 Cats (4) supplies (6) [ Also see our Annual Gift Page ] Partner Shops: Kawase Hasui prints (13) Yoshida family prints (50) Doi Hanga prints (15) Miyakodori prints (5) Numabe Mokuhan prints (3) Guest items (18) Mokuhankan Flea Market (All items) general (61) kacho-e (21) yakusha-e (19) landscape (106) bijin-ga (90) kuchi-e (0) contemporary (4) set (34) books (3) [ List of Recently sold items ] [ Flea Market Matsuri ] |
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