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Collection Online as of December 25, 2025

Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge

c. mid 1790s

Kitagawa Utamaro

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
color woodblock print
Sheet: 37.4 x 25.3 cm (14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection 1956.753.b
Location: Not on view

Description

People crowding the Ryōgoku Bridge over the Sumida River and those aboard party boats below enjoy summer fireworks. Among a group gathered on the riverbank a little boy stands holding his caged pet cricket in one hand, and a young woman’s hand in the other.
  • Jacquin Collection (sale: Walpole Galleries, January 20, 1921, lot 115)
    1921-1956
    Fanny Tewksbury King [d. 1949], Cleveland, OH, 1921-1956, sold by her estate to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1956-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1956-present
  • Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017).
    Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art Education Department, Cleveland, OH (1980).
  • {{cite web|title=Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge|url=false|author=Kitagawa Utamaro|year=c. mid 1790s|access-date=25 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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