
Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night
- Date:
- c. 1775
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; hashira-e
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.
More Prints by Isoda Koryūsai
More Moonlight Prints
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban

Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
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Color woodblock print; oban

Matsushima in Moonlight (Tsuki no Matsushima)
1919
Color woodblock print

Kiyozumi Garden in Moonlight
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
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.



