Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(歌川広重; 1797–1858)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
78.5 x 28.8 cm (30 7/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Frank E. Hart
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 290 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Sanshō (Ichikawa Danjūrō VII [?]; 1791–1859)
We go on visiting cherries / because enlightenment is / hard to come by.
Signature
Painted by Ichiryūsai Hiroshige
Seal
In the shape of a bird