Mochizuki: Pines in the Moonlight
c. 1835–38 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Art Institute of Chicago
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- c. 1835–38
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 25.1 × 37.5 cm
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago (impression 1963.701; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
A full moon hangs behind a row of tall pines with pink-brown trunks lining a mountain road under a deep blue night sky. Travellers walk the pale road, a man leads a packhorse loaded with bales and a second horse carries barrels, while at the right the land drops to a misty valley and a broken trunk leans over the edge. This is print twenty-six of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835–38. Keisai Eisen began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige, who designed this sheet, completed it. Mochizuki was the twenty-fifth station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto, and its name means full moon; the English title is descriptive, and impressions vary in colour and condition.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Deep night blue, a pale full moon and pink-brown pine trunks, for a bedroom, living room or study at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Nagakubo: Full Moon over the Bridge, the moonlit station two stops on.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835–38)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
