Title : Kyogetsu-bo 狂月坊 (Moon-mad Monk or Crazy Gazing at the Moon)

Artist : Kitagawa Utamaro

Date : 1789 (Eighth month)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Illustrated book, folding album, colour woodblock print. 1 volume. Covers: Original, dark blue, painted in gold with bands of mist and grasses. Title slip: Original, printed on yellow slip pasted in top right corner of cover. Contents: 10 leaves: 1 double-page preface, 2 double-page illustrations, 1 double page of kyoka, 1 double-page illustration, 1 double page of poem, 1 double-page illustration, 1 double page of poem and colophon. Illustrations: 1. The bay at Akashi (Akashi no ura); 2. Moon-viewing in Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tsukimi); 3. Moon over a mountain and moor (Sanya no tsuki); 4. Moon over a rural scene (Dempi no tsuki); 5. Palace in the moon (Gekkyu-den). With brass dust, mica, gold and silver leaf and gauffrage. Inscribed, signed and sealed.

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