Takanawa Ushi-machi oborozuki-kei
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
Takanawa Ushimachi — the cattle-market district along the old Tōkaidō road south of Shinagawa — is depicted under a hazy moon (oborozuki, the misted spring moon) in this undated woodblock print. The title's compositional elements — Takanawa Ushi-machi oborozuki-kei, "view of the hazy moon at Takanawa cattle market" — are precisely calibrated to Kiyochika's landscape poetics: a specific Tokyo neighbourhood, a specific lunar condition, a specific quality of diffused spring light. The "hazy moon" was a classical poetic subject that Kiyochika brought into his Meiji meisho practice.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Takanawa Ushi-machi oborozuki-kei was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Takanawa Ushi-machi oborozuki-kei depicts urban scenes, moonlight, and night scenes.