Like faces exposed in autumn moonlight - Oshun Hitotose : # 49 of One Hundred Aspects of the Moon Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)

June 23, 1887

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Polychrome woodblock print, oban

Dimensions

sheet: 14 × 9 1/2 in. (35.6 × 24.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Hanson family in memory of Brewster Hanson, B.A. 1944

Accession Number

2011.143.1.49

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Meiji era (1868–1912)

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Brooks Hanson (Mrs. Brewster Hanson), Vandoeuvre, Switzerland; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2011
Bibliography
  • John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (San Francisco: San Francisco Graphic Society, 1992), 53–69, no. 49, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, oban

Marks

June 23, 1887 (Meiji 20). An owner's red rectangular seal "?setsu (snow)" at Low Right.

Inscriptions

Like reflections in the rice-paddies\r\nthe faces of streetwalkers in the darkness\r\nare exposed by the autumn moonlight --Hitotose\r\n\r\nTagoto aru / naka nimo tsuraki / tsujigimi no / kao Sarashina ya / aki no tsukikage. - Hitotose\r\n\r\n*In Google, "aki no tsukikage" is rendered as "yami no tsukikage" or "sono no tsukikage" (latter doesn't make sense, meaning-wise) - YY (5/16/2012)

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