Moon-Viewing Location (Tsuki no Misaki), from the series One Hundred F

A wooden veranda with a green tatami floor opens onto a moonlit bay, where a full moon hangs above a line of sailing boats and a flock of birds crosses the sky. A pine branch and a lantern-like object frame the view in the corners, rendered in bold outlines and layered color typical of Edo-period nishiki-e printing.

Look closer: A small flock of birds flying across the moon in the upper left sky.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

1857

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2626 × 3810 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1919