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Autumn Moon (お月見) Designer: Hiroshige | Carver: David Bull | Printer: Chiharu Kawai Paper size: 15cm by 11cm | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [HC] ? ( Change currency: $ / £ / € ) Price: $ 40.00£ 32.25€ 36.75   Description: Almost everybody with any knowedge of this country at all has heard of the custom of moon viewing; any number of the books I read about Japan before coming here talked about o-tsukimi, usually describing scenes of kimono-clad people on a veranda overlooking a Japanese garden, perhaps with a large pond below, in which the freshly-risen moon was reflected. Members of the party would take turns creating their poems to the beauty of the moon ... Well, that was then, and this is now. Although I suppose that there are some people here who do indeed take part in such events, I suspect they are rather few and far between. For the most part these days, most of us are no longer even aware what phase the moon is in at any moment. Unless ... we happen to catch sight of the full moon accidentally, as happened to me just a month ago. I was making an evening errand on my bicycle out to the local shops, and turning a corner suddenly came face to face with the largest, most golden full moon I had ever seen, directly framed in the distance at the end of a long straight stretch of road. It was bigger than I would have ever thought possible, and as I stood there and watched it climb higher, I felt that I understood how important it must have been ... before the days of tall buildings and electric lights ...  Browse thumbnail pages of various selections from the catalogue ... Mokuhankan Publications:general (101) kacho-e (27) landscape (55) bijin-ga (17) contemporary (15) senshafuda (2) yakusha-e (4) HangaClub (69) ebook (7) miscellaneous (5) 8 Cats (3) supplies (6) [ Also see our Annual Gift Page ] Partner Shops: Kawase Hasui prints (16) Yoshida family prints (88) Doi Hanga prints (52) Miyakodori prints (5) Numabe Mokuhan prints (3) Guest items (17) Mokuhankan Flea Market (All items) general (41) kacho-e (30) yakusha-e (20) landscape (182) bijin-ga (114) kuchi-e (0) contemporary (0) set (31) books (3) (Recently sold items) |
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