歌川広重画 月に雁|Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon
Utagawa Hiroshige
ca. 1833 · Woodblock print · Asian Art
The full moon on the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the peak of autumn, has always been special to East Asian poets. Both the poem and image here capture the moment when wild geese are seen flying across the full moon: こむな夜が 又も有うか 月に雁 Konna yo ga mata mo arō ka tsuki ni kari Will there ever again be such a marvelous night! Wild geese against the moon. —Trans. John T. Carpenter
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- ca. 1833
- Medium
- Woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918
