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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.)
John L. Severance Fund 2000.4
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-2000
    (Suzanne Mitchell Asian Fine Arts, New York, NY, ?-2000, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2000-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2000-present
  • Cunningham, Michael R. "Reverie on a pair of Japanese screens", The Magazine Antiques, vol. 160, no. 1, July 2001: 108-113. Reproduced: p. 109, pls. I, II
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” March 17, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Mentioned: p. 2 archive.org
    Cunningham, Michael. "Two Exhibitions of Japanese Painting." Orientations, vol 32, number 6 (June 2001): pp. 63-68. Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 7
    Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: pp. 26-27
    Art of Japan: Paintings, Prints and Screens: Selected Articles from Orientations, 1984-2002. Hong Kong: Orientations Magazine, 2002. Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 464
  • Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 11, 2018-January 7, 2019).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 10, 2004).
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  • {{cite web|title=Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain|url=false|author=|year=early 1600s|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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