Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province (1857): Art, History and Details

Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province (1857) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Late in his career, Hiroshige explored the poetic theme of setsugekka, “snow, moon, and flowers,” in a set of three triptychs. This panoramic scene shows the autumn moon over Kanazawa, near Tokyo. Hiroshige’s contemporaries would have recognized the coastline dotted with villages, fishing boats, and the distinctive double-arched bridge at the bottom right.

Object facts

• Title: Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province
• Date: 1857
• Creator attribution: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Print
• Technique: One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
• Dimensions: Sheet: 35.6 x 24.8 cm (14 x 9 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1921.410.c

Collection credit

Gift from J. H. Wade

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