Moonlight on the Yodo River
Original title
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- JP1429
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1922
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1849. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A full moon hangs over the Yodo River at Osaka. Riverboats crowded with passengers glide on the blue water past the stone walls and white keep of a castle on the right, with low green banks and hills beyond.
- Image
- 1600 × 1099
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009008
coldlibrary.com/g/009008 - Credit line
- Katsushika Hokusai, Moonlight on the Yodo River, c. 1833. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009008
Hokusai’s series Snow, Moon and Flowers sets each of the three classical pleasures at a famous place; the moon is given to the Yodo, with Osaka Castle at the water’s edge. The night is not dark at all but a clear blue evening, and the moon is a pale disc. It is a picture of people out on the water together, enjoying the light.
