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A seated Japanese woman dressed in kimono layers looks left over her shoulder at the silver moon in upper left.

A fair skinned woman seated on a deck with a low wooden railing, faces a small table with small ceramic pieces on the right, as she holds up a small blue dish in her right hand. She’s dressed in a neutral-colored kimono with patterned layers underneath of salmon and light-blue; her black hair twists up, held together with a large hair ornament. Delicate pink blossoming tree branches stretch skyward behind the railing, beyond that calm light-blue water and a gradated sky growing darker at the top of the print. Silver and gold calligraphy dangle down from the sky.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.92
People
Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉, Japanese (1790 - 1848)
Title
Moon Viewing
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1820s
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362422

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
H. 20.7 × W. 17.8 cm (8 1/8 × 7 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Israel Goldman Japanese Prints, London, (ca. 1990s)], sold; to Private Collection, New York (by 1990s - 2012), sold; [through Israel Goldman, London, spring 2013, cat. 19, no. 31]; to Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn, Arlington, MA (2013-2019), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Israel Goldman
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.92
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Israel Goldman Japanese Prints and Paintings: Recent Acquisitions, auct. cat. (London, 2013), no. 31

Exhibition History

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