Moon At Magome — 馬込の月

This impression of Moon at Magome (馬込の月) belongs to a group of documented variants of one of Hasui's best-known compositions. The print shows the village of Magome, then at the rural fringe of Tokyo, under a full moon. A winding path bordered by trees — their branches described in fine key-block lines against the moonlit sky — leads the eye into the middle distance where the eaves of traditional farmhouses are visible. The composition's success depends on the balance between the pale luminosity of the sky and the darker tones of the vegetation and earth below, achieved through carefully registered bokashi gradations on the sky block. Hasui returned to Magome as a subject because it offered a pastoral landscape accessible from the city yet untouched by the modernization transforming Tokyo's inner wards. Variant impressions differ in paper stock, pigment saturation, and print date.