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When googling on this topic I encountered this page:
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1020346630

To be honest I totally don't understand any of this:
広重の「月に雁」は構図の絶妙さと、画賛の「こむな夜か又も有うか月に雁」が絵に実に言い得て名作として知られ、落款の「鹿」は「福」を、「馬」は「寿」にデフォルメされ、「馬鹿」と「福寿」の二重の意味を隠す。

浮世絵切手は広重１０点、北斎８点、写楽４点、歌麿３点で他を抑えており、広重は北斎に比べ絵がやわらかく変化に富んで、特に「月に雁」は人気がある。
What does this mean, could you provide at least a rough translation or explanation? Perhaps it's a bit too much to ask but it's just baffling how little information I (as gaijin) can infer from this text. It's like some sort of alien code.

As for this part
花鳥風月は美しい自然の風景を観賞し、それをもとに詩歌や絵画を創作することで、この「月に雁」も秋の風物として多くの画家により制作がなされています。
I assume it means something like that:
Traditional themes of natural beauty and admiration of splendid scenery inspired a lot of poetic and artistic works. Depiction of "Wild goose and a moon", a haracteristic scene of autumn in Japan, is one of the popular motives in a large number of artworks by various painters.