True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Moon over Yushima Seido Temple
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
The moon over Yushima Seido Temple — the great Confucian academy and shrine dedicated to the Chinese sage, established by the Tokugawa shogunate in the seventeenth century — creates one of Yasuji's most intellectually resonant compositions. The temple's association with classical Chinese learning gave it a particular character in the Meiji period, when the new government was both drawing on Confucian ideas and importing Western educational models. The moon, traditional symbol of cultivation and reflection, hangs over this institution of humanistic learning with appropriate poetic weight.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Moon over Yushima Seido Temple was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Moon over Yushima Seido Temple depicts temples & shrines, moonlight, and night scenes, set at Tokyo.