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Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night by Isoda Koryūsai — Japanese Color woodblock print; hashira-e, c. 1775

Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night

by Isoda Koryūsai

Date:
c. 1775
Medium:
Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Description

This tall, narrow hashira-e composition places a pale full moon amid horizontal bands of mist near the top, with two women in patterned kimono descending toward a river below. Both figures have their kimono hitched up and skirts tucked, wading barefoot through grey water beside a tan-and-orange horse; the upper woman turns her head back with an ornamented hairstyle of combs and pins, while the lower woman walks ahead holding the horse's lead. The palette is muted throughout — olive and tan robes, grey water and sky — a color woodblock print by Isoda Koryūsai, titled *Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night*, 1770.

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Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night was created by Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) in c. 1775.

Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night depicts moonlight.