Kitagawa Utamaro, Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River
Wade, 1916.1116 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Kitagawa Utamaro

Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River

c. 1800

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Triptych of color woodblock prints
Dimensions
38.6 × 25.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-200977

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.

Provenance

Wade, 1916.1116

Registry history

  • c. 1800 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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