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Moon at Musashi Plain, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

Moon at Musashi Plain, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

In Japanese folklore, the Musashi Plain was home to magical foxes who could transform into humans to enchant and bewitch. Frequently, the fox assumes the form of a beautiful woman. Although Yoshitoshi has rendered foxes at various stages of transfiguration in other series and prints, this composition successfully suggests human transformation despite the animal form by rendering the fox raising her paw in a human gesture to smooth her fur. In this design, one of Yoshitoshi’s most popular from the series, the vixen preens and gazes at her image visible as a soft mirrorlike reflection in the moonlit water.
Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
(Japanese, 1839 - 1892)
Title
Moon at Musashi Plain, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
Date
1892
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
330 x 224 mm Image
Credit
John H. Van Vleck Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
2004.69
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 217, no. 216

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 : Chazen Museum of Art, 3/21/2008–6/15/2008
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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