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Moon Seen through Leaves (Hagoshi no tsuki), from the series Twenty-eight Views of the Moon (Tsuki nijû hakkei no uchi )


「月二拾八景之内 葉ごしの月」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 38 x 17 cm (14 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6792
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Dai ukiyo-e ten/5 Ukiyo-e Favorites (2019), #306; San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #187; Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #122; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, large tanzaku #1.1
DescriptionPoem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997); and in San Francisco 1998, p. 246.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsPoem by Bai Zhuyi (from Wakan rôeishû):
不湛紅葉青苔地 又是涼風暮雨天
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.