Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain
Unknown Artist
early 1600s
Medium
One of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
Dimensions
170.2 × 346.7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
2000.4.1
About this artwork
Tall grasses and autumn flowers reach out of thick green undergrowth in this depiction of the plain of Musashi, a site famous from classical Japanese poetry. A silver disc, now tarnished, represents the full moon. Flecks of cut-gold foil in the sky evoke the day’s passage into night. Once a wilderness with a vast horizon, Musashi is now densely populated.