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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

The Eighth Month: Moon Viewing on the Fifteenth Night (Hatsuki: Tsukimi), 1854

Description

Maker

Title

The Eighth Month: Moon Viewing on the Fifteenth Night (Hatsuki: Tsukimi)

Year

1854

Medium

Three-paneled polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

36 x 74.8 cm (14 3/16 x 29 7/16 inches) (overall)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Toyokuni ga

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Marshall H. Gould

Object Number

30.039.9

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Kunisada's Twelve Month Series

October 10, 2008 - February 1, 2009

Moon viewing was especially appropriate for the fifteenth day of the eighth month when, in the lunar calendar, the moon would be full. Here, women walk delicately through a garden filled with the seven grasses of autumn, a symbol of the season.

Triptychs in Japanese Printmaking

June 6 - August 31, 2003

The eight month of the lunar calendar is the second month of autumn and overlaps the Western month of September. This moonlit scene is set against autumn grasses. In Japan, the seven autumn grasses commonly symbolize this season.

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