Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

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.

Provenance

(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 (2000-)

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

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early 1600s

Accession Number

2000.4.1

Medium

One of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper

Dimensions

Image: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund