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Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

Japan, Edo period

(1615–1868)
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Medium
Pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
Measurements
Overall: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2000.4
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The Musashino Plain is home to much of western Tokyo today.

Description

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.
A pair of horizontal sixfold folding screens features ink and color paintings of tall grasses and white wildflowers. Shimmering gold leaf fills the upper half, while dense green and brown foliage covers mounded hills in the lower half. In the bottom screen, a large, dark circular moon sits low within the vegetation. Dark, patterned borders frame the horizontal composition of the gilded panels.

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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