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A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank by Utagawa Hiroshige — VisualArtsDB

A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank

A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank

Utagawa Hiroshige

1830–1839

Medium: Color woodblock print; ko-tanzaku
Dimensions: 34 × 11.5 cm (13 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Genre: woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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The haiku, by Sakushôkken Riho, has been translated as:The morning tempestsees even mandarin ducksgo separate ways.

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