Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge

Cleveland Museum of Art

Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge

Kitagawa Utamaro

Date
c. mid 1790s
Medium
color woodblock print
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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. At left, a boy with a lantern advertising the name of the restaurant for which he works, “Ōnoshi,” guides two women away.

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