Moonlight over Mount Yoshino

Series:

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (print 5 of 100)

Date:

1886

Medium:

Print

Format:

Oban

Source:

Victoria and Albert Museum

Typical Price

Scarce or exceptional One Hundred Aspects of the Moon design: $2,000–$10,000
Fine impression of popular moon design: $800–$2,500
Common moon design, good condition: $300–$800

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

Shunkan Watching Enviously from Kikai Island as Yasuyori Returns to the Capitol after Being Unexpectedly Pardoned (Shunkan sozu Kikaigashima ni oite tamatama Yasuyori no shamen senbo kito no zu)

Looking as if She Wants to Go for a Walk: The Fashion of a Married Woman of the Meiji Era (Yūho ga shitasō, Meiji nenkan saikun no fūzoku), from the series Thirty-two Appearances of Fashion (Fūzoku sanjūni sō)

Slovenly (Shidaranasaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"

1888

Color woodblock print; oban

Four PM, from the series "Twenty-Four Hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi"

n.d.

Color woodblock print

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)"

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.