Ōmori, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
early 1830s
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 23.9 × 34.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-198636
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 boa…
Provenance
Kelvin Smith, 1985.335
Registry history
- early 1830s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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