Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River

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Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River

Kitagawa UtamaroLinkedCulture matchlcp-39e686abde8d

Date
c. 1800
Medium
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
95357

Pleasure-boating in the evening on the Sumida River to escape the summer’s heat was about as popular as viewing cherry blossoms in spring for Edo townspeople. The river also led the way to the Yoshiwara, the licensed brothel district. A boating party with courtesans and gentlemen jostles up next to afishing boat. Utamaro enjoyed portraying a scene through the design of a fishing or mosquito net. The different colors of the net suggest these impressions may be from two different series.

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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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