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The Moon-Viewing Promontory, from One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo

Utagawa HiroshigeLinkedCulture matchlcp-058622c2ea8f

Date: 1857
Medium: color woodblock print
Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 152499

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Here, Utagawa Hiroshige’s design places the viewer by pine trees, peering beyond a doorway at the end of a moon-viewing party. The silhouette of a figure with an elaborate hairstyle is visible through a translucent paper door; only the person’s hem trails into view. Another individual remains seated on the floor in the upper right, near a musical instrument and a tray with blue-and-white ceramics, possibly still admiring the autumn moon over ships in Edo (now Tokyo) Bay. 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.

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Credit line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
Provenance: ?–1942: Henri Vever [1854–1942], France | March 24, 1977: (Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 24, 1977, lot 372) | 1977-?: (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) | ?–1985: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH