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The Moon-Viewing Promontory, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo
Hiroshige1857
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Hiroshige, 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.
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- Title: The Moon-Viewing Promontory, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo
- Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
- Date Created: 1857
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 33.9 x 22.8 cm (13 3/8 x 9 in.)
- Provenance: Henri Vever [1854–1942], France, (Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 24, 1977, lot 372), (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith), The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.320
- Medium: color woodblock print
- Inscriptions: Signature: Hiroshige ga
- Fun Fact: Beginning in the 700s, the Japanese held moon-viewing parties in celebration of the full moon during the late summer and autumn months. A full moon is visible in this print.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1985.320
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