Moon over Chofu village. No. 96 from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

The village of Chofu in Musashi province was located along one of the six Jewel Rivers, immortalized in a series of poems. Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) composed the poem for the river at Chofu:At Tatsukuri morning dewdrops lie in shining stringson cloth spread out for bleachingJewel River villageYoshitoshi made several prints in this series that refer to the sound of pounding cloth in the moonlight, with its sad associations of a woman waiting for her distant husband to return.(“Moon,” curated by Ellen Avril and presented at the Johnson Museum August 25, 2018-January 13, 2019)