Ducks and Reeds, c. 1835, Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shōzō, Japanese, 1797 - 1858, 14 13/16 × 5 1/16 in. ( × cm) (image, sheet, chūtanzaku)23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. ( × × cm) (outer frame), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, 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.

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