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Lot Essay
This set features themes from Yoshitoshi's famous print series Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon).
The titles of the twelve paintings in the order in which they appear in the print set are [the lot illustrations are numbered accordingly]: Konkai (The cry of the fox) [93-1]; Shinko no mikazuki Yukimori (Faith in the third-day moon--Yukimori) [93-2]; Genji Yugao no kan (The Yugao chapter from the Tale of Genji) [93-3]; Shibai machi no akatsuki (Theater-district dawn moon) [93-4]; Oboroyo no tsuki (Hazy-night moon) [93-5]; Bon no tsuki (Bon Festival moon) [93-6]; Gekkyu no mukae--Taketori (Received back into the Moon Palace--Taketori) [93-7]; Godo no tsuki (Moon of enlightenment) [93-8]; Ishiyama no tsuki (Moon at Ishiyama Temple) [93-9]; Chiyodono ga/itadaku oke no/soko nukete/mizu tamaritewa/tsuki mo yadorazu (The bottom of the bucket/which Lady Chiyo filled/has fallen out/the moon has no home in the water) [93-10]; Uchu no tsuki--Kojima Takanori (Rainy moon--Kojima Takanori) [93-11]; Shimo gun'ei ni michi shuki kiyoshi/sugyo no hengan tsuki sanko--Kenshin (Frost fills the camp and the autumn air is still/lines of returning geese cross the moon in the third hour--Kenshin) [93-12].
The titles of the twelve paintings in the order in which they appear in the print set are [the lot illustrations are numbered accordingly]: Konkai (The cry of the fox) [93-1]; Shinko no mikazuki Yukimori (Faith in the third-day moon--Yukimori) [93-2]; Genji Yugao no kan (The Yugao chapter from the Tale of Genji) [93-3]; Shibai machi no akatsuki (Theater-district dawn moon) [93-4]; Oboroyo no tsuki (Hazy-night moon) [93-5]; Bon no tsuki (Bon Festival moon) [93-6]; Gekkyu no mukae--Taketori (Received back into the Moon Palace--Taketori) [93-7]; Godo no tsuki (Moon of enlightenment) [93-8]; Ishiyama no tsuki (Moon at Ishiyama Temple) [93-9]; Chiyodono ga/itadaku oke no/soko nukete/mizu tamaritewa/tsuki mo yadorazu (The bottom of the bucket/which Lady Chiyo filled/has fallen out/the moon has no home in the water) [93-10]; Uchu no tsuki--Kojima Takanori (Rainy moon--Kojima Takanori) [93-11]; Shimo gun'ei ni michi shuki kiyoshi/sugyo no hengan tsuki sanko--Kenshin (Frost fills the camp and the autumn air is still/lines of returning geese cross the moon in the third hour--Kenshin) [93-12].