TSUKI TO BUDO (moon and grapes)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- wbp
Description
TSUKI TO BUDO — Moon and Grapes — a composition pairing the lunar disc with the autumn fruit of the vineyard, two subjects associated with the same season. The full moon of autumn was celebrated in the traditional Japanese moon-viewing festival (tsukimi), and grapes ripened in the same season, making the pairing a natural one. Kimura's contemporary woodblock treatment creates a graphic relationship between the round disc of the moon and the clustered roundness of the grape bunch, two forms with a family resemblance.
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
TSUKI TO BUDO (moon and grapes) was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
TSUKI TO BUDO (moon and grapes) depicts moonlight and night scenes.