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Usually I dislike a cloudy sky / tonight I realize that a cloudy sky / makes me appreciate the light of the moon - Gen'i, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Usually I dislike a cloudy sky / tonight I realize that a cloudy sky / makes me appreciate the light of the moon - Gen'i, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)

Usually I dislike a cloudy sky / tonight I realize that a cloudy sky / makes me appreciate the light of the moon - Gen'i, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)

Artist (Japanese, 1839-1892)
CultureJapanese
Date1887
Mediumcolor woodblock print on paper
Dimensions13 15/16 × 9 3/8 in. (35.4 × 23.8 cm)
Classificationsprints
Credit LineThe Gene and Susan Roberts Collection
Object number2023.32.145
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Did I ever imagine that / as the clouds of the high autumn sky cleared / I would view the moon through a bamboo lattice window - Hidestugu, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Did I ever imagine that / as the clouds of the high autumn sky cleared / I would view the moon through a bamboo lattice window - Hidestugu, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1889
Since the crescent moon I have been / waiting for tonight - Old man, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Since the crescent moon I have been / waiting for tonight - Old man, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1891
How noisy, the sound of insects calling in the meadow / as for me, I make no sound but think of love, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
How noisy, the sound of insects calling in the meadow / as for me, I make no sound but think of love, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1890
On the coast at Kiyomi even the sky bars the way / The moon is blocked by the Mio pine groves, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
On the coast at Kiyomi even the sky bars the way / The moon is blocked by the Mio pine groves, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1886
How hopeless it is / it would be better for me to sink beneath the waves / perhaps then I could see my man from Moon Capital - Ariko, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
How hopeless it is / it would be better for me to sink beneath the waves / perhaps then I could see my man from Moon Capital - Ariko, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1886
I wish I had gone to bed immediately / but now the night has passed / and I watch the moon descend, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
I wish I had gone to bed immediately / but now the night has passed / and I watch the moon descend, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1887
As I look out into the vast expanse / can this be the same moon / that I saw rise in Kasuga behind Mount Mikasa?, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
As I look out into the vast expanse / can this be the same moon / that I saw rise in Kasuga behind Mount Mikasa?, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1888
In the midst of glimmering whiteness / among the night's moon-shadows / I part the snow and pluck plum blossoms - Kintō, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
In the midst of glimmering whiteness / among the night's moon-shadows / I part the snow and pluck plum blossoms - Kintō, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1887
Cherry Trees Blossom by the Sumida River / Boats Fade from View in the Gathering Dusk / at Sekiya as I View the Moon – Muziki Tatsunosuke, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Cherry Trees Blossom by the Sumida River / Boats Fade from View in the Gathering Dusk / at Sekiya as I View the Moon – Muziki Tatsunosuke, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1891
I listen to the sound of cloth being pounded / as the moon shines serenely / and believe that there is someone else / who has not yet gone to sleep - Tsunenobu, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
I listen to the sound of cloth being pounded / as the moon shines serenely / and believe that there is someone else / who has not yet gone to sleep - Tsunenobu, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1886
As I am about to enter the ranks of those who disobey / ever more brightly shines / the moon of the summer night - Akashi Gidayū, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
As I am about to enter the ranks of those who disobey / ever more brightly shines / the moon of the summer night - Akashi Gidayū, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1890
Does the cuckoo also / announce its name from above the clouds? / Yorimasa extemporizes: / I only bent my bow / and the arrow shot itself, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Does the cuckoo also / announce its name from above the clouds? / Yorimasa extemporizes: / I only bent my bow / and the arrow shot itself, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1888