Name: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Brand: Flowering Peonies
Price: 10000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Flowering Peonies
circa 1845, woodblock printed in colors, tanzaku, signed 'Hiroshige Hitsu', censored by Mera Taichiro, with haiku poem 'I cast water on the ground and, for the moment, await the moon'
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13½ in. (34.3 cm.) x 4⅜ in. (11 cm.)

Hirakawa Collection.
Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, March 1917.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, 1917-48.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-49.
Acquired 2 February 1949.

R. Ellsworth and A. Christy, et. al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, New York, Vol. III, 1993, p. 324, no. 245 (illustrated, p.324).

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