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Sparrow and Snow-covered Camellia (Tsubaki)

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vertical rectangular woodblock print with a gray background featuring white speckles. A bird with a white body, black and yellow wings, and a black eye patch flies towards the left. The bird is positioned in the top third of the image. Below the bird, a flowering plant with a thin brown branch extends from the bottom center to the top right. The plant has several large flowers with white centers, pink petals, and yellow stamens. Dark green leaves are scattered along the branch. Vertical blue Japanese text runs along the right side. On the left side, there are two circular symbols and a square red symbol. Small black Japanese text is also on the left.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
214 × 624 px
Museum record:
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