Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon

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Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon
Print   (Part of the set: Hiroshige Tanzaku Series)

Hiroshige
Takamizawa
1970s

2019
00043-001
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

One of Hiroshige's most famous tanzaku-ban designs ... three geese against a gigantic full moon. Very light gradation around the edge of the moon shows the skill of the printer. The poem reads: "Will there ever again / be such a marvelous night! / Wild geese against the moon" (translation by John Carpenter). According to the MET, the prominent stamp in the lower section of the print includes images of a horse (read "ba") and a deer (read "ka"), together forming the word "baka" ("fool").

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