Dusk (Yoi)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
Description
"Dusk" (Yoi) evokes the hour between sundown and full dark — that brief window when the sky holds its last warmth and the world below begins to merge into shadow. In Japanese aesthetics, yoi (early evening) is associated with transition, the moment when the day's energies begin to quiet and the night's different register begins to assert itself. Binnie's bokashi gradations at dusk would move through warm amber and rose toward the cooler blues and purples of approaching night, charting the sky's transformation with atmospheric precision.
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Woodblock print
Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![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
Frequently Asked Questions
Dusk (Yoi) was created by Paul Binnie.
Dusk (Yoi) depicts night scenes.