Ando Utagawa Hiroshige, after, a pair of woodblock prints in colours, 20th Century.

(1): "White Heron and Iris" Carpenter(2): "Mallard Duck and Snow-covered Reeds" Hosoban: I. 37 x 16,5 cm.

Discolourations. Creases. Not examined out of frame.

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The poem on the latter woodblock is rendered as:

Kamo naku ya
kaze fuki-shiwamu
mizu no omo

A duck quacks—
as the wind wrinkles
the face of the water.

—Trans. John T.

More about Ando Utagawa Hiroshige

Ando Hiroshige is one of the most renowned a Japanese painters born in Edo. He began his artistic career as an apprentice to Utagawa Toyohiro. After completing his training, Hiroshige took his teacher's name and started signing his works Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige painted motifs from everyday life, and it is said that he decided to become an artist after seeing the works of the contemporary artist Hokusai. Hiroshige transformed ordinary landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. He is particularly known for his beautiful landscape images in the woodblock printing technique and has painted portraits of young women and actors. His masterpiece is considered to be the work “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.”

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