Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing His Flute in the Moonlight
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
About 1883
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ōban triptych
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 73 × 37 cm (28 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.); Mat: 57.2 × 95.3 cm (22 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Gookin Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Fujiwara no Yasumasa’s windblown robes contrast sharply with the strong, fixed pose of the robber Hakamadare Yasusuke in this woodblock print. According to legend, Yasumasa, a renowned poet and flutist who lived during the Heian period (740–1185), so charmed the would-be thief with his music and confident bearing that the outlaw meekly followed him home.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
