The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Joan B. Mirviss, New York, 2012; Brewster Hanson Collection, Geneva

From Richard Kruml's JapanesePrints-London.com site relative to this image (different print): Awabi or tokobushi, abalone or “sea-ear” and sayori, Japanese half-beak or snipe-fish, together with peach blossom from the first series of ten prints published by Eijudo, c. 1832-4.

Inscribed: Lower left: artist's signature, Ichiryusai Hiroshige ga, and seal "Ichiryusai"; publisher's seal; censer's kiwame date seal. Upper right: poem, "Haliotus tuberculate; Hemirhamphus sayori/On rocks and sand and rinsing waves/The jewel, abalone, polishes itself.//The kimono padding comes out now that spring is here/And the sayori is cleaned for a springtime feast.//I would love to be transformed into a creature thin enough/to follow the abalone into the cracks of rocks."