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| Artist: | Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839-1892) Taiso — 月岡芳年 |
| Title: | Mount Otowa Moon |
| Series: | 100 Aspects of the Moon — 月百姿 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1886 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 30901 |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
100 Phases of the Moon: # 35 Mount Otowa Moon
Artist: Yoshitoshi
Format: Oban tate-e: 14.25" x 9.75"
Subject: This design is taken from a Noh-play called Tamura. Three itinerant monks visit the Kiyomizu Temple on a moonlit night in Spring. A youth appears and begins to sweep away fallen cherry blossoms with a broom. The monks ask him about the history of the temple, he answers briefly and then disappears. A local commoner comes on stage and tells them that the youth must have been the ghost of Sakanoe no Tamuramaro, who was a famous general of the later Nara period (710-794).
Date: 1886
Condition: Fine colors. Full size with large margins. A small area of offsetting from another print by falling cherry blossoms. Japanese album backing paper. Minor marks and flaws. Generally fine state of preservation.
Impression: Fine impression with gauffrage and mica in the bokashi at top. |
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