Teahouses at Imadobashi on a Moonlit Night
- Date:
- c. 1877 (Meiji 10)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e): ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 24.1 × 36.8 cm
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
The tea houses at Imadobashi on a moonlit night — one of Kiyochika's earliest and most perfectly realised nocturnal compositions, dating from circa 1877 in Meiji 10 — shows the wooden establishments along the Sanya Canal at Imado glowing with lantern warmth against the blue-black night. The moon's light competes with and complements the lanterns, creating the doubled luminosity that was Kiyochika's compositional signature. The print belongs to the first years of his Tokyo meisho series and already demonstrates the full maturity of his kōsen-ga approach.
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Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
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Frequently Asked Questions
Teahouses at Imadobashi on a Moonlit Night was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親) in c. 1877 (Meiji 10).
Teahouses at Imadobashi on a Moonlit Night depicts moonlight and night scenes.
Teahouses at Imadobashi on a Moonlit Night measures 24.1 × 36.8 cm (Oban format).