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Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

Japan, Edo period

(1615–1868)
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Medium
One of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
Measurements
Image: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2000.4.2
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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.
A horizontally oriented six-panel folding screen features a field of wispy grasses painted against a solid gold background. In the lower middle ground, a large dark-gray circular moon sits low among the blades. To its left and right, clusters of small white flowers grow from dense green and brown grass along the bottom edge. A dark, patterned geometric border frames the horizontal scene, which is divided vertically by five panel hinges.

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

early 1600s

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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