Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

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

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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.

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