Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 59851
Moonlight under trees
- Artist / 作者
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi月岡芳年
- Date / 年代
- 1839
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 401 × 600 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
Catalog note / 解説
Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka - 100 Moons - Moonlight under trees- 1.jpg is: 100 Phases of the Moon: # 59 Artist: Yoshitoshi Format: Oban tate-e: 13.75" x 9.25" Subject: 'In the Moonlight under the Trees a Beautiful Woman Comes'. A conventionally beautiful woman dressed in luxurious Chinese costume stands by a flowering plum tree under a perfect full moon. She is the Spirit of the Plum Tree, who appeared to Zhao Shixiong, a Chinese poet of the Sui dynasty (589-618). One fresh spring morning, Zhao climbed the slopes of the sacred mountain of Luofu in southern China to admire the flowering plum trees there. As evening drew on, he fell asleep under the trees, and a nymph appeared to him in a dream. Wak…
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