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          KATSUSHIKA TAITO II (ACTIVE CIRCA 1810-1853)        UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
          Carp swimming upwards                               Cockerel in morning snow
          Woodblock print, signed Katsushika Taito, published by Echigoya   Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga and sealed Ichiryusai, published
          Chohachi, circa 1840s, framed and glazed            mid-1830s
          14 x 6Ω in. (35.6 x 16.5 cm.)                       Chutanzaku: 14¡ x 4æ in. (36.5 x 12.1 cm.)
          $3,000-5,000                                        $3,000-5,000

                                                              The kyoka poem has been read and translated as: Kinuginu no/
          PROVENANCE:
          Wakai Kenzaburo (1834-1908)
                                                              hanashi mo imada/ tsumoranu ni/ tokekau to naku/ naku yuki no tori,
                                                              "The hour of parting/ with all its deep feelings/ in drifts about
                                                              them/ they hear the melting tones/ of the cockerel in the snow".
                                                              See Cynthea J. Bogel and Israel Goldman, Hiroshige Birds and
                                                              Flowers, (New York, 1988), cat. no. 57.
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