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

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
Culture
Period

Meiji era (1868–1912)

Classification
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Provenance

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.
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

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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