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Flying Plum
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Flying Plum

Totoya Hokkei · 1823 · color woodcut; blind-stamped; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

A carp in a fishing net and a wooden figurine of a bird. Beside it plum blossoms against a silver-red background. The title of the print refers to the plum tree in the garden of Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), which he cared for so well that the tree would have followed him when Michizane was exiled. With one poem.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineVliegende pruim. 1823. Totoya Hokkei. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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