Moon at Ayashi (Ayashi no tsuki (Miyagi ken))
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1946
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Moon at Ayashi in Miyagi Prefecture — a rural hill community west of Sendai — shows a full moon rising over a quiet farming landscape in this 1946 postwar print. The Ayashi no tsuki composition puts the moon over the rural Miyagi interior rather than over famous scenic water, giving it a more domestic, lived quality than Hasui's famous moonlight compositions at celebrated sites. Bokashi gradations in the sky build from deep indigo at the zenith to a warm glow around the rising moon.
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![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
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March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
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1919
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January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
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Frequently Asked Questions
Moon at Ayashi (Ayashi no tsuki (Miyagi ken)) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1946.
Moon at Ayashi (Ayashi no tsuki (Miyagi ken)) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Moon at Ayashi (Ayashi no tsuki (Miyagi ken)) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1946).
Moon at Ayashi (Ayashi no tsuki (Miyagi ken)) depicts moonlight.