Early Edo Period (17th c.)／Color on gold-leaf paper, pair of six-fold screens
140.0 x 330.0 cm (each)
SUMMARY
The composition of Musashino Plain was one favored by several Yamato-e schools of painting in the early modern period. Depictions of the plain of Musashino were generally brimming with taste. Musashino is part of the Kanto Plain which spreads over the western part of Edo (Tokyo). Its name is found in old texts such as the Manyoshu and The Tales of Ise, and in a popular poem: “On the Musashi plain/There is no mountain/Behind which the moon disappears./It rises and sinks among the grass.” The entire screen is packed with countless autumn flowers, with Mt. Fuji above the clouds on the left, and the moon sinking amongst the grass on the right. The moon, which was painted with silver pigment, has turned black with age.
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