YUFUDUKUYO: The Evening Moon
Artist
Fukumoto Fuku
(Japan, born 1973)
Date2004
MediumGlazed porcelain
DimensionsDIAMETER: 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
HEIGHT: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
HEIGHT: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
Object TypeCeramics
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of the artist
Object number2005.449
On View
Not on viewThe artist often addresses the changing nature of natural phenomena in his works: waxing and waning, shifting shadows, changing seasons. Yufudukuyo is a seasonal word for the moon, and can be translated more specifically as the waxing moon.
“Yufudukuyo” appears in a poem by Princess Shikishi (1149-1201):
色つぼむ梅の木の間の夕月夜春の光をみせそむるかな
iro tubomu - In between
mume (ume) no ko (ki)no ma no - The plum trees sprouting in color
yufudukuyo (yuzukiyo) - It is the evening moon
faru (haru) no fikari (hikari) wo - That hues revealing
misesomuru kana - The light of spring
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