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The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei)" by Isoda Koryūsai — Japanese Color woodblock print; hashira-e, c. 1773/75

The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei)"

by Isoda Koryūsai

Date:
c. 1773/75
Medium:
Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Description

A tall, narrow hashira-e print showing two women outdoors on a veranda beneath a flowering branch, with rolling hills and a pale moon in a grey sky at the top. The standing figure wears a red-orange robe and touches her fingers to her chin, while the seated figure in front wears a golden-tan robe patterned with a scattered motif and turns her head back toward her companion. Muted earth tones — russet, ochre, and soft green — dominate the palette, framed by a plain border; the composition is signed and titled in cartouches at upper right. Isoda Koryūsai, 1768, from "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa": *The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji*.

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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.