# Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing His Flute in the Moonlight

- By: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
- Date: About 1883
- Medium: Color woodblock print; ōban triptych
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/102619)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/539466cc-d8e4-a17a-9925-c91a8e447581/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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