Landscape with Moon, from the Aomomiji (Blue Maple Leaves) series
青紅葉 — 月の風景
by Tsuda Seifū
- Date:
- circa 1900-1910
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print with silver powder on paper
青紅葉 — 月の風景
by Tsuda Seifū
Landscape with Moon, from the Aomomiji (Blue Maple Leaves) series, is a color woodblock print with silver powder produced by Tsuda Seifu around 1905 and held at the Rijksmuseum, where this impression is consulted through the museum's Wikimedia Commons holdings. The Aomomiji series followed Tsuda's eight-volume Zuan shu Collection of Designs as one of the inventive small format publications he produced for the Kyoto publisher Honda Ichijiro in the early years of the twentieth century. Where the Zuan shu albums had been purely ornamental, Aomomiji let Tsuda apply the same Meiji period decorative discipline to small pictorial subjects, and here he composes a nocturnal landscape around a single round moon suspended above a low horizon. The silver powder catches the light unevenly, giving the impression a soft cool luster that intensifies the night atmosphere, while the simplified contours and broad areas of flat color foreshadow the structural reduction Tsuda would later develop in his post Paris Cezannist oil paintings. The print belongs to the moment when Kyoto designers were absorbing Art Nouveau and pictorialist Western influences while retaining the woodblock traditions of the late Meiji publishing world, and the Rijksmuseum impression preserves both the silver pigment highlights and the disciplined keyblock that characterize the Honda publishing house's color woodblock production in these years.
図案集 一
August 1900
Color woodblock print with gold and silver pigments on paper; bound album
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1916
Letterpress and color woodcut on paper; bound book
ホトトギス 第十四巻第十二号 (明治四十四年七月)
1 July 1911
Color woodblock, letterpress, and lithography on paper
図案集
1900-1901
Color woodblock print with gold and silver pigments on paper; bound album
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
1919
Color woodblock print
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Landscape with Moon, from the Aomomiji (Blue Maple Leaves) series (青紅葉 — 月の風景) was created by Tsuda Seifū (津田青楓) in circa 1900-1910.
Landscape with Moon, from the Aomomiji (Blue Maple Leaves) series depicts moonlight and autumn foliage.