Hokusai's landscape prints beyond the Thirty-six Views span a remarkable range of viewpoints and weather conditions. Non-series landscape prints by Hokusai regularly appear in specialist Japanese print sales worldwide.
Moonlight falls on the Yodo River south of Kyoto in this print catalogued under the title Tsuki (moon), its still waters reflecting the pale lunar disc in a composition devoted entirely to nocturnal atmosphere. The Yodo River connected Fushimi to Osaka and carried the commercial traffic of the Kyoto-Osaka corridor; by night it transformed into a landscape of poetic stillness.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
c. 1832
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Moonlight on the Yodo River (Tsuki) was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎).
Moonlight on the Yodo River (Tsuki) depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and moonlight.