Night views with moonlight and lantern effects carry a 20–30% premium over comparable daytime scenes. The dramatic tonal contrasts required for nocturnal subjects make impression quality especially important — fine examples from pre-war printings show a depth of color that later editions rarely match. Prints with well-preserved black areas and accurate moonlight bokashi command the highest prices. Pre-war lifetime editions bearing the Watanabe copyright seal (A through G types, 1926–1944) are the most desirable.
Akebi Bridge — a small span in Tokyo or the surrounding area — takes on a luminous quality under a full moon in this 1935 print, the bridge's reflection extending across dark water. The Akebibashi no tsuki composition uses the bridge as a middle-ground element that connects the moonlit sky above to the reflected moon below, the arch of the bridge echoing the arc of the moon's reflection in the water. [Bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations in the sky build around the moon's halo.
Woodblock print
![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
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Moon over Akebi Bridge (Akebibashi no tsuki) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1935.
Moon over Akebi Bridge (Akebibashi no tsuki) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Moon over Akebi Bridge (Akebibashi no tsuki) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1935).
Moon over Akebi Bridge (Akebibashi no tsuki) depicts bridges and moonlight.
