Moonlight Night- LE
by Kaoru Kawano
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Kaoru Kawano
$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kawano's early death at 49 limits her output. Her dreamlike figure prints are most sought after.
Moonlight Night in limited edition captures Kawano's sustained fascination with the drama of nighttime and the transformative effect of lunar illumination on landscape or figure. The moon was among the most potent symbols in Japanese aesthetic tradition — associated with melancholy, beauty, and the passage of time — and Kawano rendered moonlit scenes with a palette and atmosphere distinct from his daylight compositions. The LE printing gives collectors a carefully controlled impression of one of his most evocative nocturnal images.
![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.
Moonlight Night- LE was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Moonlight Night- LE depicts moonlight and night scenes.
