Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain
early 1600s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain, early 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper; overall: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2000.4 Tall grasses and autumn flowers reach out of thick green undergrowth in this depiction of the plain of Musashi, a site famous from classical Japanese poetry. A silver disc, now tarnished, represents the full moon. Flecks of cut-gold foil in the sky evoke the day’s passage into night. Once a wilderness with a vast horizon, Musashi is now densely populated. The Musashino Plain is home to much of western Tokyo today.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 2000.4
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation, <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121). </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 10, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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