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Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

Chōbunsai EishiLinkedCulture matchlcp-f799399dc8a2

Date: c. 1796–97
Medium: One of a pentaptych of color woodblock prints
Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 103302

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A pleasure boat named Kawaichimaru is filled with entertainers in this expansive scene. At the vessel’s right end, a young dancer waits as her costume’s hat is arranged. In the middle, a trio of musicians performs, two on drums and another on shamisen, a three-stringed instrument. Listening to them is an elegant woman smoking her pipe. At the left end, three women, one on a neighboring boat, enjoy a spectacular floral arrangement of pine, lily, and iris on a lacquer stand.

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Credit line: Gift from J. H. Wade
Provenance: Hayashi Tamdamasa | ?–1921: Carl William Schraubstadter [1862–1947] | February 11, 1921: (American Art Association, February 11, 1921 sale, lot 315) | 1921: (Yamanaka & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1921–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Chinese landscape paintings
These are predominantly Chinese paintings from the Ming, Qing, Yuan, and Song dynasties that depict natural landscape scenes including mountains, rivers, forests, and human settlements using traditional media such as ink
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