Moonlight Night- Oban
by Kaoru Kawano
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
The oban-format Moonlight Night gives Kawano's nocturnal subject its most expansive treatment, the large sheet accommodating the full sweep of a night landscape or the luminous isolation of a figure under moonlight. Japanese aesthetic tradition had long associated moonlight with both beauty and melancholy — the moon's reflection in water, its cold light on stone, its transforming effect on familiar scenes — and Kawano worked within this tradition while bringing his own bold graphic sensibility to bear on it.
More Prints by Kaoru Kawano
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
Moonlight Night- Oban was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Moonlight Night- Oban depicts moonlight and night scenes.