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Woodblock print of a full moon over a calm bay seen from a wooden veranda, with distant sailboats and a pine branch.

Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki), One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

A colored woodblock print shows a full moon above a calm bay, framed by a wooden veranda with tiled eaves and a pine branch at the lower right. Small sailboats dot the pale distant water, while the foreground is a flat green expanse with a few tiny boats and a rock at left.

Artist
Ando Hiroshige
Date
1857
Medium
Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
2688 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1857).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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