White Moon
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- wbp
Description
White Moon — a second (or alternate titled) moon composition from Kimura's celestial series. The white moon — the full moon at its most luminous — was the classic moon of Japanese poetry and contemplation, the disc from which the poet Abe no Nakamaro gazed homeward across the sea and which the Heian court ladies observed through their screens. Kimura's contemporary treatment of this ancient subject places the white disc within the graphic language of modern woodblock printing.
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
White Moon was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
White Moon depicts moonlight and night scenes.