Moon Pine, Ueno, No. 89 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1857

The Moon Pie is one in the series that clearly shows the viewing lens of looking into a like of a magnifying glass or a camera lens would signify a photograph input of a perspective of looking into a scenery in more depth. Even though it is seen as the pine tree is circled in a way that represents a shape coming from a tree. The full roundness of the moon pie could almost be seen as a full moon which is why the “moon” title shows. The branch is know to take it shape because a storm had blown it off and grew in form that what we seen in the print.

Vanessa Carlos