Cleveland Museum of Art
Fourth Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa KuniyoshiLinkedCulture matchlcp-342b9dd11d24
- Date
- c. 1830
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 95347
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This is one of five surimono , privately commissioned prints, making up an image of people collecting sea life at low tide. Ten witty poems, written by members of a poetry circle, appear across the upper part of the composition, with two poems on each print. Based in Edo (now Tokyo), the group was led by Hisakataya Misora (active 1810s–30s), who wrote four of the poems. This composition may have been printed in April, which was considered the best time for beachcombing.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- ?–1916: Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857–1926] and Mrs. Ellen Garretson Wade [1859–1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1916–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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