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A work made of hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk.

Frost fills the air and the autumn air is still/lines of returning geese cross the moon in the third hour-Kenshin, from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon

1885/92

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Japanese (1839–1892)

Japan

This hanging scroll portrays the shogun lord Uesugi no Terutora (known as Kenshin) as he sits in his military encampment beside a banquet for his generals. He is enjoying a moment of quiet before the next day’s battle against his longtime rival and, struck by the sight of a flock of geese flying past the full moon, he is inspired to write a poem.

Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk

Japanese

Arts of Asia