Though best known for bijin-ga, Shinsui also produced landscape prints of great refinement. These typically trade at lower prices than his figure subjects but attract collectors seeking less competition.
A full moon in autumn—the most celebrated celestial event in the Japanese calendar year—rises over a landscape suffused with the particular golden light of the harvest season. The autumn moon (tsukimi) had been a subject of Japanese poetry and visual art since the Heian period, and Shinsui's treatment continues this tradition through [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) printing that achieves the moody luminosity of moonlit autumn foliage. The bokashi gradations build the complex tonal transitions of moonlight filtered through colored autumn leaves.
![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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
1919
Color woodblock print
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Autumn Full Moon was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水).
Autumn Full Moon uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Autumn Full Moon was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Autumn Full Moon depicts moonlight, night scenes, and autumn foliage.
