Moonviewing Banquet at Yoshino Imperial Palace
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
A print depicting a moon-viewing banquet at the Yoshino Imperial Palace — a scene set at the mountain imperial retreat associated with the fourteenth-century Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo, one of Japan's most romantically charged historical locations. Yoshino in the mountains of Nara Prefecture was the site of the Southern Court's exile during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (1336–1392), and its associations with doomed imperial legitimacy gave any image set there a quality of melancholy grandeur. Moon-viewing in such a setting combined aesthetic pleasure with historical elegy.
Meiji period, dated October 10, 1896
Woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Moonviewing Banquet at Yoshino Imperial Palace was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Moonviewing Banquet at Yoshino Imperial Palace depicts night scenes and architecture.