Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Oban tate-e from the series Hyakunin Isshu, One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, plate Chunagon Yakamochi, The weaver princess Orihime and her husband the cowherd on a bridge of clouds.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga, publisher Ehiko.
(Margins trimmed).
37 x 25 cm
When I see
the whiteness of the frost
deposited on the bridge
that the magpies have thrown
how deep the night seems
Provenance: Wansart Gallery, Brussels, February 5, 1949.
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