Ducks and Reeds, c. 1835
Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shōzōexpand_more
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperexpand_more
Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr.expand_more P.75.51.587
Not on Viewexpand_more
As early as the tenth century in China, artists depicted geese amid dried and broken river reeds to suggest the coming of winter. The theme was emulated by amateur ink painters in Japan in the thirteen century and soon became a stock subject for professional painters. At some point, Japanese artists began to substitute ducks for geese, but the poetic sentiment remained the same as is clear from the inscription of this print:
Ducks cry and the wind
makes ripples on the water.
Details
- Title
- Ducks and Reeds
- Artist Life
- 1797 - 1858
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.75.51.587
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Ukiyo-e shūka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 240, chūtanzaku #11.02?
- Curator Approved
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