Moonlight over Mount Yoshino
- Series:
- One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (print 5 of 100)
- Date:
- 1886
- Medium:
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
Description
Moonlight over Mount Yoshino from 1886 evokes one of Japan's most celebrated poetic landscapes—the mountain famous for its spectacular cherry blossoms and for the tragic last stand of the Southern Court during the Nanbokuchō civil wars of the fourteenth century. Yoshitoshi renders the mountain under pale moonlight, invoking centuries of waka poetry and historical memory associated with Yoshino's blossoms and ghosts. The nocturnal palette of deep indigo and silver creates an atmosphere of quiet melancholy.
More Prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
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
Moonlight over Mount Yoshino was created by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) in 1886.
Yes — Moonlight over Mount Yoshino is part of the One Hundred Aspects of the Moon series (print 5 of 100) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
Moonlight over Mount Yoshino depicts moonlight and night scenes.