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Mandarin Ducks and Snow-covered Bamboo


雪中の竹に鴛鴦
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 33.4 x 11.6 cm (13 1/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number50.16
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #57; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 240, chûtanzaku #23.08?
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1215, 21.8009, 50.16

The same poem, on other prints, is translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints, p. 318.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
InscriptionsPoem: Oshidori no/ sakazuki to chiyo/ usugôri
おし鳥の 盃とちよ うす氷
Provenance1950, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA.