The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River
c. 1800
(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Overall: 38.6 x 25.4 cm (15 3/16 x 10 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1116
Location: not on view
Description
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.- ?–1916Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857–1926] and Mrs. Ellen Garretson Wade [1859–1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1916–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Education Department (1980).
- {{cite web|title=Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River|url=false|author=Kitagawa Utamaro|year=c. 1800|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.1116