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Details
- Alternative title
- Chōfu sato no tsuki
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- June 1891
- 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
- 258.2012.96
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
By the light of the full moon and by the river, washed clothes piled on the straw mat are being beaten with mallets by two women in order to soften them. They are then laid out to dry. The sounds of women beating cloth is associated with the notion of women waiting for their husbands (see also 258.2012.84 'Cloth-beating moon'). Chōfu (also known in Japanese as 'tatsukuri') literally means ‘tax cloth’. The town was probably known to have used cloth as payment in lieu of tax at some time. This is a common scene used in 'ukiyo-e' prints and Hiroshige had produced similar prints, often identifying the town on the Musashi plain by including Mount Fuji in the background.
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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.96; 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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