Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River
c. 1800
Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japanese Art
Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River, c. 1800. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806). Triptych of color woodblock prints; overall: 38.6 x 25.4 cm (15 3/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1116 In this triptych (a composition of three prints), a nighttime drinking party on a pleasure boat is interrupted by an encounter with a fishing boat on the Sumida River in Edo (now Tokyo). A young man in a bold, checked robe distributes lacquer dishes of sake to his female companions, while another man sits on the boat’s roof, peering at the fisherman’s net. The fisherman struggles to control the net as a woman in the party boat offers her sake dish, her robe pulled open at the neck to enjoy the evening cool.
- Maker/Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Triptych of color woodblock prints
- Dimensions
- Overall: 38.6 x 25.4 cm (15 3/16 x 10 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1916.1116
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Exhibitions
- Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections, <em>Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Education Department (1980).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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