Moon (Nara)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Typical Price
$500–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
Description
The moon over Nara — the ancient capital whose deer parks and great Buddhist temples made it one of Japan's essential cultural destinations — appears in a composition that uses the moon's cold light to illuminate the city's architectural heritage. Nara's temples and stone lanterns take on a different quality under moonlight, the ancient stones becoming simultaneously more present and more ghostly, the historic weight of the site amplified by the night's silence.
More Prints by Jun'ichiro Sekino
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)"
March 1933
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
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Moon (Nara) was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Moon (Nara) depicts moonlight and night scenes, set at Nara.