The Moon through Smoke (Enchû tsuki): Firefighter, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)

「月百姿　煙中月」

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1886 (Meiji 19), February

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 × 24.1 cm (14 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016

Accession Number2016.953

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (2001), #22

Signed Yoshitoshi
芳年

ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)