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Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

Japan, Edo period

(1615–1868)
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Medium
One of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
Measurements
Image: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2000.4.1
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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 horizontally oriented ink and color painting on a six-fold gilded screen depicts a landscape. Across the foreground, dense clusters of thin green and tan grasses sprout small white flowers. In the middle ground, muted brown, rolling hills rise against a solid gold background. Six vertical panels are framed by a dark decorative border with small, repeating patterns.

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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