Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Oban tate-e from the series Hyakunin Isshu, One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, plate Ariwara no Narihira Ason, The poet and his attendants by the Tatsuta river looking at the maple leaves floating with the current.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga, publisher Ehiko.
(Margins trimmed).
37 x 25 cm
Never was it said
even in the time of the impetuous gods
of the Tatsutagawa
that its waters have been so
tinged with scarlet red
Provenance: Galerie Wansart, Brussels, February 5, 1949.
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