Cleveland Museum of Art

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

Date: early 1600s
Medium: One of a 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: 161672

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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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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