Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain
Tall grasses and autumn flowers reach out of thick green undergrowth in this depiction of the plain of Musashi, a site famous from classical Japanese poetry. A silver disc, now tarnished, represents the full moon. Flecks of cut-gold foil in the sky evoke the day’s passage into night. Once a wilderness with a vast horizon, Musashi is now densely populated.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- early 1600s
- Dimensions
- image: height 1.702 m, width 3.467 m
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- John L. Severance Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art identifies the work as a depiction of the plain of Musashi, and the image presents an expansive field of vegetation across the screen.
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Flora Both · 99%
Tall grasses, green undergrowth, and flowering plants dominate the composition and are explicitly described in the museum catalog.
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The Seasons Both · 98%
The title identifies an autumn scene, and the image visibly includes seasonal grasses and flowers.
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Times of Day Metadata · 97%
The title identifies an evening scene with a full moon, and the catalog describes gold foil flecks as evoking the passage from day into night.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Both · 99%
The object is cataloged as a painting made with ink, color, and metallic foil; the image visibly shows painted vegetation across the screen.
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Screen Format Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the object as one of a pair of six-fold screens, a format also visible in the supplied image.
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Gold Leaf and Gilding Both · 99%
The medium is specified as gold and silver foil on gilded paper, and the image visibly shows a broad luminous gold-toned ground with reflective flecks.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to the early 1600s, with a date range of 1600–1625.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The work is cataloged as Japanese Art and its place of origin is Japan during the Edo period.
Materials
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Gold Metadata · 99%
The catalog explicitly identifies gold foil and gilded paper as part of the medium.
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Silver Metadata · 98%
The catalog explicitly identifies silver foil as part of the medium.
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Use of Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the support as gilded paper.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 15,862 × 7,782 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available