Geese Christmas Card

A print produced as a Christmas card, with geese as the seasonal subjects — a crossover between the Japanese kacho-e tradition and Western holiday gift culture that reflects the international market for Koson's work. He was well aware that foreign buyers constituted a significant portion of his market, and this kind of Western-occasion print demonstrates his pragmatic engagement with that audience. The geese — associated in Japan with autumn migration and in the West with the barnyard — translate across cultures with appealing ease.