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 M-34 shows a country house — "Futayado," perhaps a specific inn or rural residence — under the full moon, the thatched or tiled roof catching the lunar light while the surrounding garden or farmyard lies in gentle shadow. Shotei's rural moonlight scenes possess a quality of almost complete stillness — the countryside at night, the moon high enough to illuminate without casting deep shadows, the world simplified into pale surfaces and dark masses. The "old country house" designation gives the scene a nostalgic quality, the moon shining on a traditional Japan.
![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
1919
Color woodblock print
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
M-34 - Futayado - Moon at old country house was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
M-34 - Futayado - Moon at old country house uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
M-34 - Futayado - Moon at old country house was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
M-34 - Futayado - Moon at old country house depicts moonlight and night scenes.
