Art Institute of Chicago
Sparrows and Camellia in Snow
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重LinkedCulture matchlcp-732c025793de
- Date
- c. 1831-33
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ōtanzaku
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 11039
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Of the two versions of this design in the Art Institute's collection, this image is accepted as the earlier printing of this famous design. The poetry appearing on both impressions has been identified by the scholar Suzuki Juzo as the first two lines of an unsigned Chinese poem entitled “Inquiry of a Stork” by Hakurakuten (772–846). It reads: Crows and storks fight over something to eat and sparrows over where to sleep, You stand there all alone by the pond, the wind blows and snow piles up.
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- Credit line
- Gift of H. R. Warner
- Provenance
- Harold Remsen Warner (1880-1938), Santa barbara, CA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 9, 1932.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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