Moon - 月

From the 1980 posthumous edition "12 Aspects of Women," this print depicts a woman in moonlight — the moon (tsuki) a recurring presence in Kotondo's seasonal imagery, associated in Japanese aesthetics with contemplation and the passage of time. Cool bokashi gradations render the lunar atmosphere, the background dissolving into the particular blue-grey of a moonlit night. The woman is illuminated from above, her figure half in silver light and half in the deeper shadow of the night.