Autumn Moon on the Tama River

A full moon glows above a wide, calm river at dusk, its pale disk framed by a drooping willow whose branches sweep across the right side. Small boats and wading figures sit on the blue water beside a sandy bank, with distant hills and trees along the far shore. Printed ink and color on paper, with a column of inscription beside the moon.

Look closer: A small boat with a figure poled along the far left water, and inscription text beside the moon.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1838

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3825 × 2612 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936