# Twilight Moon at the Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku no yoizuki), from the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"

- By: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
- Date: c. 1831
- Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 21.2 × 34.5 cm (8 5/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47845)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9798767c-329e-c14a-ec60-45ba86d1d06a/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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