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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

The Seventh Month: Waiting for the Moon (Fumizuki: Nijurokuya machi), 1854

Description

Maker

Title

The Seventh Month: Waiting for the Moon (Fumizuki: Nijurokuya machi)

Year

1854

Medium

Three-paneled polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

36.2 x 74.6 cm (14 1/4 x 29 3/8 inches) (overall)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Toyokuni ga

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Marshall H. Gould

Object Number

30.039.6

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Kunisada's Twelve Month Series

October 10, 2008 - February 1, 2009

Three elaborately dressed women dine on crabs and drink sake while they wait for the moon to appear over Shinagawa Bay in Edo (modern Tokyo) on the twenty-sixth day of the seventh month. On this night, it was believed that the Buddha Amida would appear with two bodhisattva attendants, Kannon and Seishi.

The publisher has included his mark on the lanterns on this veranda as a form of self-advertisement. It appears again on a single lantern in the print for The Twelfth Month.

Triptychs in Japanese Printmaking

June 6 - August 31, 2003

Since spring marks the beginning of the lunar year, the seventh month, which is the first month of autumn, usually falls in August in our calendar. These women are seeking to escape the heat on a veranda above the river, while other residents of the city are seen in the distance cooling themselves by boating in the moonlight.

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