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 M36 shows the moon rising at Nokizaki — a coastal or rural location where the lunar disc emerges above the horizon through a scene of quiet evening. Shotei's moonrise compositions required precise [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) work to capture the graduated luminosity around the rising moon, the way its light began to affect the sky around it before the disc itself became fully visible. The Nokizaki setting suggests an intimate, locally specific observation rather than the grandeur of classical moongazing subjects.
![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.
M36- Moon rising at Nokizaki was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
M36- Moon rising at Nokizaki uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
M36- Moon rising at Nokizaki was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
M36- Moon rising at Nokizaki depicts moonlight and night scenes.
