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A work made of color woodblock print; ko-tanzaku.

A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank

1830s

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797–1858

Japan

The haiku, by Sakushôkken Riho, has been translated as:
The morning tempest
sees even mandarin ducks
go separate ways.

Color woodblock print; ko-tanzaku

Arts of Asia