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.
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.