Moon has no home in the water : # 74 of One Hundred Aspects of the Moon Yale University Art Gallery

November 10, 1889

Medium: Polychrome woodblock print, oban
Dimensions: sheet: 14 3/16 × 9 1/2 in. (36 × 24.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Hanson family in memory of Brewster Hanson, B.A. 1944
Accession Number: 2011.143.1.74
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Meiji era (1868–1912)
Classification: Prints
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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. 74, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, oban

Marks

Meiji 22 (1889) November 10 printed and published in the same month, though the left margin cuts one vertical column and cannot verify the publishing data.

Inscriptions

The bottom of the bucket \r\nwhich Lady Chiyo filled has fallen out\r\nthe moon has no home in the water. \r\n\r\nChiyodono ga ? itadaku oke no / soko nukete / misu tamari tewa / tsuki no yadorazu.

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