Crescent Moon

Data

Crescent Moon
Print   (Part of the set: Selected Works by Hiroshige)

Hiroshige
O-Edo Mokuhansha
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20.40 cm
40.40 cm

2019
00003-005
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

An ōtanzaku (large tanzaku) print of a crescent moon or "Bow-Shaped Moon" from Hiroshige's series "Twenty-eight Views of the Moon" (Tsuki Nijû Hakkei no Uchi) series. The original print was produced around 1832 by the publisher Wakasaya Yoichi (also known as Jakurindo).

The Chinese poem at the top of the print, taken from volume seven of the Toshisen (唐詩選), reads: At dawn, the moon flies for a while
behind a thousand trees.
Autumn rivers keep it distant
from the numerous peaks in the West"
(Translation by Matthi Forrer, p.8 of "Hiroshige Prints and Drawings" (London, 1997).

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