Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River
1800s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 152.9 × 69.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-115659
After a major fire in Edo (now Tokyo), the Yoshiwara licensed brothel district was relocated to an area accessed via boat along the Sumida River, giving rise to many compositions depicting travel there. Here, attendants with checkered robes serve refreshment to a client. A figure at the fore of the boat tends to the kitchen. A courtesan at the aft, or rear, surveys the river scene. Acquaintances converse in modest commuter boats, and fishers put in to a tiny island. The boat is near the entrance to the San’ya Canal, where pleasure-seekers would disembark.
Provenance
Kelvin Smith, 1985.262
Registry history
- 1800s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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