Landscape in Moonlight

A hanging scroll in soft ink wash shows a pale moon above misty, cloud-wrapped rocky peaks, with dark outcrops rising from the haze. A small boat with a single figure drifts on calm water in the lower center, rendered with minimal, economical brushwork.

Artist

Kano Tan'yū

Date

after 1662

Medium

One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink on silk

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1053 × 2000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975