C7- Moonrise at Tokumochi
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
Catalog number C7 in Shotei's "C" series depicts the moon rising at Tokumochi, a coastal or rural location where the full or nearly full moon clears the horizon above trees or hills. Shotei's moonrise compositions were among his most technically demanding — the graduated sky behind the rising moon required precise [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) work to achieve the luminous halo effect around the lunar disc without losing the atmospheric depth of the surrounding darkness. The Tokumochi setting gives this an intimate, locally observed quality.
Woodblock print
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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
C7- Moonrise at Tokumochi was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
C7- Moonrise at Tokumochi uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
C7- Moonrise at Tokumochi was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
C7- Moonrise at Tokumochi depicts night scenes.
