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Mallard Ducks and Snow-covered Reeds


雪中芦に鴨
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1836 (Tenpô 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 37.6 x 17.2 cm (14 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2140
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #199; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #69; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #5; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #8.1; Michener, Floating World (1954), #62
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.962, 11.2140, 21.7929

Poem translated in Michener 1954, p. 352; by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in San Francisco 1998, p. 259.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsPoem: Kamo naku ya/ kaze fuki shiwamu/ mizu no omo
鴨啼や 風吹しはむ 水の面
ProvenanceBy 1911, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; October 16, 1911, 1911, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 16, 1911)