This posthumously published design — based on a Kiyochika sketch and issued in 1929 — shows the Haneda coastline south of Tokyo under a clouded, moon-washed sky. The original design likely dates from Kiyochika's active Tokyo landscape period in the late 1870s or 1880s, when he frequently depicted the bay shores and fishing villages that fringed the capital. Moonlight filtering through broken cloud was among his most characteristic compositional devices, and this serene nocturnal seascape distils that signature mood.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Moonlight through the Clouds off the Haneda Coast was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親) in 1929 (original design by Kiyochika; published posthumously).
Moonlight through the Clouds off the Haneda Coast depicts landscapes, seascapes, and moonlight.
