Title
Mount Ashigara moon - Yoshimitsu, from the series One hundred aspects of the moon
10 October 1889
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Ashigarayama no tsuki - Yoshimitsu
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- 10 October 1889
- 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
- 258.2012.70
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
The 11th-century courtier and warrior Minamoto no Yoshimitsu was not only accomplished in martial arts but, above all, in music. His favourite instrument is the 'sho', a mouth organ made with bamboo reeds. One day, on his way into battle, he was followed by the young son of his deceased sho teacher. Yoshimitsu tried to convince the youth to turn around, but could only do so after he agreed to teach him a beautiful tune that he had learnt from the boy’s father. This event took place on Mount Ashigara on a moonlit night. The story is recorded in ‘Collection of things heard in the past and present’, a history compiled in 1254.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
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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.70; 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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