Celebrated Waterfall

A tall blue waterfall pours down a dark cliff in a vertical woodblock print, its color graded from pale to deep blue. A thin crescent moon hangs in the grey sky to the right, above jagged black rocks. The inscription at upper left and a signature at lower right frame the scene.

Look closer: A small red seal and artist's signature sit in the lower right corner.

Artist

Yanagawa Shigenobu

Date

1820–1830

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2093 × 3947 px

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