Cleveland Museum of Art
Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain
- Date
- early 1600s
- Medium
- Pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 161671
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. The Musashino Plain is home to much of western Tokyo today.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?-2000: (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
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