Published 1899, Duck (#12) belongs to Gekko’s Artwork (Gekko Gahou). Gekkō gahō presents the artist’s pictorial repertory in album form. Such art books served collectors, students, and designers, circulating compositional models and displaying the breadth of a painter-printmaker’s command of figures, nature, legend, and history.
Bird imagery in Japan often combines observed behavior with seasonal, literary, and auspicious associations. Species, posture, and accompanying plant are therefore integral to the design’s meaning. The catalog identifies birds as the principal motif. Gekkō uses it to clarify action, season, setting, or narrative emphasis rather than as interchangeable decoration.
As a book or album image, the composition was designed to be encountered in sequence and in relation to text, facing pages, and the physical act of turning leaves.
Additional information
| Editions | First Edition |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Daikokuya Gaho |
| Size | Oban |
| Subjects | birds |
| Year Published | 1899 |
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