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Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

川一丸船遊び

c. 1796–97

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

(Japanese, 1756–1829)
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Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
Pentaptych of woodblock prints
Measurements
Overall: 38.4 x 24.2 cm (15 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.364
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Location
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Description

A pleasure boat named Kawaichimaru is filled with entertainers in this expansive scene. At the vessel’s right end, a young dancer waits as her costume’s hat is arranged. In the middle, a trio of musicians performs, two on drums and another on shamisen, a three-stringed instrument. Listening to them is an elegant woman smoking her pipe. At the left end, three women, one on a neighboring boat, enjoy a spectacular floral arrangement of pine, lily, and iris on a lacquer stand.
A five-panel woodblock print depicts twelve women with light skin tones on a pleasure boat stretching continuously across the composition. Against stylized, wavy black water and a sand-colored background, the boat carries women boarding from a smaller vessel on the left, serving tea in the center, and playing instruments like the shamisen and drum on the right. The scene is rendered in muted tan, black, and peach tones.

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

c. 1796–97

Chōbunsai Eishi

(Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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