Ōmori, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ōmori, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital

Utagawa KuniyoshiLinkedCulture matchlcp-342b9dd11d24

Date
early 1830s
Medium
Color woodblock print
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
152515

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

Sites around Edo (present-day Tokyo) were popular subjects of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) prints in the early 1800s. The calligraphy in the red circle on the upper right is the title of the series, The Famous Places in the Eastern Capital . The Ōmori district, on Edo Bay a few miles south of Edo, was known for its cultivation of nori, the crackly sheets of seaweed commonly wrapped around rice balls or sushi rolls. Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicted two women gathering seaweed from cultivation beds. One uses chopsticks, while the other gently rakes the seaweed into the baskets in their boat. The tip of another skiff behind the stand of plants on the right and the cultivation beds in the distance suggest the scale and importance of this industry.

View at Cleveland Museum of Art ↗

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.2FqYQN72WmcFQKQv.FKqckbKBECpI9jcJbpCV-AHyftwswF_QBKgK9K33V_urvcRpPPbWZ2o0phdOqoX6da3LsxoxtEEJaI_gD06yL96jSuk_enQIxvfZxuLxuqxT0nhaGSoQn7gdnJJ6d_poK7oL9zhFs8tWXU5wJDJT0k4qywWb9rT_7CZweouUA8jl_hA1K5PRy9d7X_Dl2XtUsoSuMBhmUGrg1N6MyR4HHSVMAzsrTGsCpScmGYxarbXUaqoxS8j1iiNOS2Y87aYx1AS3rRdlTWOmv7mBdCLY_VMPYStwcw_kI4y3jNZI6g59dmW_9ASee at Cleveland Museum of Art QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.PvYRJX9zCTc_lASD.eWzuswEebeIaobobsyOi8IcbdeC8-ZGBcVwJjEH_bS542VGd6o3u9B5vhFYfTPepkOC5jmsIETfxZ_WdxN6VE3jjBkL-PSu4W5ybo7ui6OKpSirX4V5H8cWtxYWJGysuR_gpoYR-ewQRnqG5CYKa1k3cEyG1CXRxJuUx_KOalb_daARR_YeC9fOfOfXHfV-VdLkZdzh8Yjl4R46UrB9zPfUo9TkMOluXC17ESlTqZ8YdQzdKp4bLKXy1V8I-LeiM4NXPGCJ9ajgoNrPPQ7_eR6WtgzmLLaPhukbPME2UPw
Open this page
See at Cleveland Museum of Art

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
Provenance
?–1972: Hans Popper [1904–1971], consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet for sale | October 6, 1972: (Sotheby Parke Bernet, October 6, 1972 sale, lot 281) | Eugene V. Thaw [1927–2018], New York, NY, to Kelvin and Eleanor Smith | ?–1985: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.