Moon Guiter
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
A woman with elaborate black hair ornaments kneels in profile, cradling a round-bodied lute (gekkin) angled across her lap and plucking its strings. She wears a green kimono patterned with small figures and cranes, accented by an orange under-robe and a red obi visible at the waist, set against a plain cream background with a red seal and title cartouche in the upper right. Toyohara Chikanobu, woodblock print, "Moon Guitar," year unknown.
More Prints by Toyohara Chikanobu
More Moonlight Prints
![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
Matsushima in Moonlight (Tsuki no Matsushima)
1919
Color woodblock print
Kiyozumi Garden in Moonlight
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
Moon Guiter was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Moon Guiter depicts moonlight and night scenes.