Title
Hazy-night moon - Kumasaka, from the series One hundred aspects of the moon
06 January 1887
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- oboroyo no tsuki - Kumasaka
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- 06 January 1887
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock; ōban
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 26.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 258.2012.45
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
The main figure is a masked nō actor performing the role of Kumasaka no Chōhan, a Buddhist priest who became an outlaw and led a band of robbers. One night in 1174, Kumasaka’s gang robbed a travelling gold merchant, not knowing that the prodigy warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune was in the merchant’s entourage. Kumasaka was defeated and killed. His story was dramatised in the nō play 'Kumasaka'. There is no moon in this design, but audiences familiar with the play would have recognised the reference to a hazy-moon in the title from a chorus line: ‘Though the moon is out, it is a hazy, moonlit night – “Storm in”, he orders …’
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Theatre of dreams, theatre of play: no and kyogen in Japan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Jun 2014–14 Sep 2014
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
Outlaw, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–06 Jun 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuriko Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi Tsuki hyakushi (Yoshitoshi’s One hundred aspects of the moon), Tokyo, 2010. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One hundred aspects of the moon, Seattle, 1992, (colour illus.). cat.no.45; Another edition was reproduced
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Chris UHLENBECK, Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection, Leiden, 2011, 135-136. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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