Twilight Moon at the Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku no yoizuki), from the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
c. 1831
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 21.2 × 34.5 cm (8 5/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The early impressions of this design, like the print seen here, were printed almost entirely in shades of blue, with a subtle gradation (bokashi) from blue to white in the water. Only the pink clouds prevent the impression on the left from being an “all blue” (aizuri-e) print. Later impressions use several other colors and now, the water is a solid blue. The design was printed with a decorative border which was has been entirely trimmed in this print and partially trimmed in the other print.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
