Print & drawing
The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry
Katsushika Hokusai
1834–35
From the archive
A high-ranking minister, Toru (822–895) was the son of an emperor. In this scene, he enjoys the company of two other men in his landscape garden overlooking the water. Here Hokusai may have illustrated a poem by Toru that mentions boats floating on the water in bright moonlight, shaded by the pines.
- Associated place
- Japan
- Material & technique
- color woodblock print
The record behind the work
Place & date
The museum gives the cultural attribution “Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)”. The pin represents this broad cultural association, not a verified creation site or depicted location.
The archive gives an approximate date or a range of years. The timeline uses that same range.
Source & reuse
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Source ID: 95389
CC0 — image and metadata released under the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access program. Published from the United States.
