Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III)

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

Maker

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786-1865, b. in Edo)
Tsutaya Kichizō 蔦屋吉蔵 (Japanese, c. 1830-1859, active in Edo, Japan), publisher
Yokokawa Takejirō 横川彫武 (Active in Edo in the mid-1800s), block carver

Title

The Eighth Month: Moon Viewing on the Fifteenth Night (Hatsuki: Tsukimi)
Twelve Months
Junikagetsu no uchi

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1854

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

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

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Toyokuni ga

Seals: Engraver's seal | Horitake;censor's seal | aratame; date seal | 1854.6

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Marshall H. Gould

Object Number

30.039.9

Type

Exhibition History

Kunisada's Twelve Month Series
Oct 10, 2008 – Feb 01, 2009

Label copy

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
Jun 06, 2003 – Aug 31, 2003

Label copy

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.

Kunisada's Twelve Months
Images of Women in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Mar 07, 1997 – May 03, 1997
The Twelve Months at Home
Mar 27, 1992 – May 17, 1992

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Tombstone

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786-1865, b. in Edo)
Tsutaya Kichizō 蔦屋吉蔵 (Japanese, c. 1830-1859, active in Edo, Japan), publisher
Yokokawa Takejirō 横川彫武 (Active in Edo in the mid-1800s), block carver
The Eighth Month: Moon Viewing on the Fifteenth Night (Hatsuki: Tsukimi); Twelve Months; Junikagetsu no uchi, 1854
Three-paneled polychrome woodblock print
36 x 74.8 cm (14 3/16 x 29 7/16 inches) (overall)
Gift of Marshall H. Gould 30.039.9

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