One Hundred Aspects of the Moon #12: Benkei Calming the Waves at Daimotsu Bay Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)

January, 1886

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print with mica

Dimensions

sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in. (37.2 × 25 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Parker in memory of James Reid Parker

Accession Number

1985.78.2

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Meiji era (1868–1912)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. James Reid Parker (Ruth Lerrigo Parker), Hamden, Conn.; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1985
Bibliography
  • John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (San Francisco: San Francisco Graphic Society, 1992), no. 12, ill
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 309, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Inscriptions

Characters in the rectangular cartouche reads, "tsuki no hyaku sugata" ("miyako", "ki" as "Gifu refecture gi") meaning One Hundred Views of the Moon. Those in the square cautouche reads, "Benkei (in small characters); Daimotsu kaijo no tsuki" the moon over the sea of Daimotsu.\r\nL. border says, "O todoke (respectfully registered) in Meiji 19 nen 1 gatsu (corresponding to the first year of 1886) by Gako (artust) Tsukioka Yonejiro (Yoshitoshi's name) at Asakusa Sugamachi 2 banchi (his address); hanmoto (published) by Akiyama Takeuemon at Nihonbashi Muromachi 3 chome 9 banchi (his address); followed by a seal "kumiawase nihyaku sho" meaning exactly a set of 200 sheets.\r\nBeneath the Yoshitoshi's seal, "?? kocho" (carving by Katsuta?).

Signed

Lower left; seal, "Taiso" (kanji is "large": and "so" of Mt. Aso; Taiso is his family name used after 1873) and signature "Yoshitoshi" above the seal.

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