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Swallows and Peach Blossoms (Adachi)

Size: 38.5cm by 17.5cm (15.16 in by 6.89 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Ando Hiroshige

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 11,000$ 78.00£ 60.75€ 72.00 [Item has been sold]

Description: This print is an ōtanzaku format published by Adachi.

Two swallows prepare to land on a branch of a peach blossom tree. 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 karazuri blind-embossing has been used to signify the texture of feathers on the bodies of the sparrows.

There are some slight creases on this print.

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