SHIROI TSUKI (white moon)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- wbp
Description
SHIROI TSUKI — White Moon — a moon subject that emphasizes the lunar disc's whiteness, the particular quality of moonlight that drains color from the world and renders everything in tones of silver, grey, and black. Kimura's White Moon composition likely centers the disc against a dark ground, the contrast between the luminous circle and the surrounding darkness creating the essential drama of the moonlit night. The Japanese title gives the composition both its specific visual subject and its poetic dimension.
More Prints by Kimura Yoshiharu
More Moonlight Prints
![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
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Matsushima in Moonlight (Tsuki no Matsushima)
1919
Color woodblock print
Kiyozumi Garden in Moonlight
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
SHIROI TSUKI (white moon) was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
SHIROI TSUKI (white moon) depicts moonlight and night scenes.