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Geese Flying across Full Moon


満月に雁
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 38.3 x 13.1 cm (15 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7952
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #195; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #s 98, 311; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #s 3, 4; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 240, chûtanzaku #13.1
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.839, *06.1384 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.7952

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in San Francisco 1998, p. 255.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsPoem: Konna yo ga/ mata mo arô ka/ tsuki ni kari
こむな夜か 又も有うか 月に雁
ProvenanceNovember 1912, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.