Hiroshige's moonlit and night scenes are celebrated for their emotional depth and mastery of atmospheric printing. Bokashi gradation in night blues and silvery grays is the hallmark of fine impressions.
Moonlight filters through an autumn canopy in this narrow otanzaku print from the "Twenty-eight Views of the Moon" series, made around 1832. The leaves create a lattice of shadows and light, the moon visible as a pale disk through the overlapping branches. The series systematically explored different conditions for viewing the moon — through foliage, over water, behind clouds — in the narrow [tanzaku](/glossary/tanzaku) format that suited such intimate atmospheric studies.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
The Moon Seen Through Leaves (Hagoshi no Tsuki), from the series "Twenty-eight Views of the Moon (Tsuki nijuhakkei no uchi)" was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in c. 1832.
Yes — The Moon Seen Through Leaves (Hagoshi no Tsuki), from the series "Twenty-eight Views of the Moon (Tsuki nijuhakkei no uchi)" is part of the Twenty-eight Views of the Moon (Tsuki nijuhakkei no uchi) series by Utagawa Hiroshige.
The Moon Seen Through Leaves (Hagoshi no Tsuki), from the series "Twenty-eight Views of the Moon (Tsuki nijuhakkei no uchi)" depicts landscapes, moonlight, and night scenes.
