Winter Moon at Toyamagahara (Fuyu no tsuki [Toyamagahara])

Winter Moon at Toyamagahara, published in 1931, depicts the Toyamagahara — the broad plain and former parade ground on the western edge of central Tokyo near what is now Shinjuku ward — under moonlight in winter, the open field's snowy surface and bare trees catching the cold light across a flat, expansive composition. The oban format allows the composition's horizontal breadth to develop fully: dark bare trees framing the moon, the pale snowfield extending to the city's low skyline, the sky graduating from deep indigo above to a lighter tone near the horizon. This print, alongside the Toyama Plain version from the same year, represents Hasui's sustained engagement with the winter moonlight subject in 1931.