The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei)"
- Date:
- c. 1773/75
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; hashira-e
- Source:
The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu) belongs to Isoda Koryusai's 1768 series Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei), a localised reworking of the Chinese Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang that confines all eight subjects to Shinagawa, the first post-station south of Edo on the Tokaido and a famous district of unlicensed brothels and seaside teahouses. The autumn-moon subject is mapped onto Tokaiji, the great Rinzai-school temple at Shinagawa, with the full moon rising above its halls or grounds and a foreground vignette of fashionable women in seasonal kosode either viewing the moon or moving through the temple precincts. The mitate logic of the series is characteristic of Koryusai: classical Chinese landscape categories are translated into vignettes of contemporary Edo bijin-ga, allowing fashionable women to embody the formal moods of seiran, shugetsu, gyoyu and the rest. The Furyu Shinagawa hakkei stands among the works that announce his ambition to extend the celebrity-and-place strategy he would crystallise a decade later in the Hinagata Wakana no Hatsumoyo courtesan series for Nishimuraya Yohachi. The Art Institute of Chicago impression (object 60526) is a chuban nishiki-e with characteristic Meiwa-era gradations: soft indigo bokashi sky, a creamy reserve for the moon and refined yellow ochre, rose and grey tones across the figures and architecture. As both a topographic and seasonal image, the print binds Shinagawa's geography to the autumnal moon-viewing rituals of Edo, demonstrating Koryusai's gift for stitching place into the fabric of polite bijin-ga. Source: Art Institute of Chicago, https://www.artic.edu/artworks/60526.
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Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei)" was created by Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) in c. 1773/75.
The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei)" depicts moonlight and autumn foliage.
