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Look from the pale full moon down to the black belly of the cauldron at the left, then follow the tall thief’s pointing finger and the saw at his belt.
Under a full moon, two thieves stand before a huge iron cauldron, the kama of the Japanese title. The Museum of International Folk Art, which holds another impression, explains that they have found the pot they meant to steal larger than they expected. The print, of 1886, belongs to Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, a hundred prints on stories connected with the moon.
Color woodblock print; oban · 37.5 × 25.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Art Institute of Chicago: A Cauldron on a Moonlit Night (Tsukiyo no kama), from the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)"
- Museum of International Folk Art: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: An Iron Cauldron and the Moon at Night
- Museum of International Folk Art: An iron cauldron and the moon at night, from Taiso Yoshitoshi, About 100 Aspects of the Moon
- V&A: Benkei and the Moon at Daimotsunoura (Tsukioka Yoshitoshi)
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- Museum title
- A Cauldron on a Moonlit Night (Tsukiyo no kama), from the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)"
- Artist
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Japanese, 1839–1892
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 37.5 × 25.4 cm (14 3/4 × 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Gookin Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.