cma-japanese-art: The Moon-Viewing Promontory, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in
cma-japanese-art: The Moon-Viewing Promontory, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtHiroshige, who frequently designed prints with unusual or humorous viewpoints, has placed the viewer by pine trees, peering through a doorway at the end of a moon-viewing party. The silhouette of an elaborately coiffed woman is visible through a translucent paper door; only her hem trails into the room. Another person remains seated on the floor in the upper right, near a musical instrument and a tray with blue-and-white ceramics. This figure may still be admiring the autumn moon over ships in Tokyo Bay.Size: Overall: 33.9 x 22.8 cm (13 3/8 x 9 in.)Medium: color woodblock printhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1985.320 -- source link
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