狂月坊, The Moon-Mad Monk, or Crazy Gazing at the Moon (Kyōgetsubō), Edo period (1615–1868), 1789, eighth month, Japan, Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper, Overall: 9 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (25.2 × 19 cm), Illustrated Books, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806), This book compiles seventy-two kyōka poems on the theme of the moon, along with five illustrations. Shown here is the moon viewed from the shores of the bay at Akashi, a famous ancient place that evoked the god of waka poetry, Hitomaro, and such works of courtly literature as the Tales of Ise and the Tale of Genji
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