The Autumn Full Moon at Ishiyama

A pale full moon rises above a steep, pine-covered cliff on the left, while a long bridge crosses a still lake toward distant hills. A small poem cartouche sits in the upper right beside a red seal. The gradient blue sky and soft tones give the night a quiet, luminous calm.

Look closer: A small red artist's seal sits near the lower right, below the signature.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1832

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2000 × 1391 px

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