The Burke Collection
Wealthy Merchant
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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

Additional details

D290-1
D290-1

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