Title
The moon's inner vision - Taira no Tomoume, from the series One hundred aspects of the moon
June 1886
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- shinkan no tsuki - Taira no Tomoume
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- June 1886
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock; ōban
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 26.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 258.2012.34
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
This print depicts the death battle of the blind warrior Taira no Tomoume against a Minamoto adversary during the late 12th century. Though the moon is not represented in the print, it is an important element, alluded to in the short Japanese poem, ‘tanka’, inscribed on the stick carried as a talisman on Tomoume’s back. It reads: ‘From darkness I have wandered lost/On to a darker path/The moon of my heart/Is becoming clouded.’
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
Outlaw, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–06 Jun 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuriko Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi Tsuki hyakushi (Yoshitoshi’s One hundred aspects of the moon), Tokyo, 2010. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One hundred aspects of the moon, Seattle, 1992, (colour illus.). cat.no.34; Another edition was reproduced
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Chris UHLENBECK, Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection, Leiden, 2011, 135-136. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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