Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge
c. mid 1790s
Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japanese Art
Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge, c. mid 1790s. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 37.4 x 25.3 cm (14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection 1956.753.b People crowding the Ryōgoku Bridge over the Sumida River and those aboard party boats below enjoy summer fireworks. Among a group gathered on the riverbank a little boy stands holding his caged pet cricket in one hand, and a young woman’s hand in the other.
- Maker/Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.4 x 25.3 cm (14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signature: Utamaro hitsu Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chusuke (emblem)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1956.753.b
- Credit Line
- The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017, Cleveland Museum of Art Education Department, 1980: Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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