- Museum number
- 1910,0614,0.16.1-3
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, triptych. Party in pleasure boat on Sumida River at night, encountering group dredging for fish in small boat with large scoop-net. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1800-1801 (ca.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.80 centimetres (centre)
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Height: 37.80 centimetres (left)
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Height: 37.90 centimetres (right)
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Width: 24.90 centimetres (centre)
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Width: 25.20 centimetres (left)
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Width: 24.80 centimetres (right)
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- Curator's comments
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Asano and Clark 1995
A scene of pleasure-boating on the Sumida River at night behind a large scoop-net that is the main feature of the composition. Such scoop-nets were particularly used to fish for whitebait in spring, and it is likely that such an association is intended here — so the fish already in the bottom of the boat must be whitebait. The unlikely preponderance of women in the design is a fabrication common to many Ukiyo-e.
Literature:
Shibui, Kiyoshi 渋井清, 'Ukiyo-e zuten, vol. 13: Utamaro' 「ウキヨエ図典13 歌麿」, Kazama Shobo, Tokyo, 1964, pls. 41-2-1, 41-2-2, 41-2-3.
‘Ukiyo-e taikei’「浮世絵大系」, gen. ed. Goto, Shigeki, vol. 6, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1976, black and white figs. 73-75.
"Kitagawa Utamaro sakuhin mokuroku" 「喜多川歌麿作品目録」, 'Ukiyo-e shuka', 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 3 (Bosuton Bijutsukan III ボストン美術館3), Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 235-254, pl. 574.
'Ukiyo-e shuka' 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 3, Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978-85, pls. 178-180.
‘Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan’「秘蔵浮世絵大観」, gen. ed. Narazaki, Muneshige, vol. 9, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1987-90, pl. 159.
‘Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan’「秘蔵浮世絵大観」, gen. ed. Narazaki, Muneshige, suppl. vol., Kodansha, Amsterdam, 1987-90, black and white fig. 25.
Other impressions:
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles.
The Art Institute of Chicago.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Werner Schindler Collection.
Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館.
Musée National des Art Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris (centre sheet only).
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (Mass.).
[Main text translated in Japanese below / 以下上記本文日本語訳]
浅野/クラーク 1995
夜の隅田川、屋根舟での遊興と、四つ手網漁を描く。画面を大きく支配する四つ手網がポイントである。四つ手網といえば、春の白魚漁が特に知られており、この図もそのことを念頭においた作品であろう。漁舟にみえる魚は白魚ということになる。女性が多いのは浮世絵的虚構と考えてよい。
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Smith 1988
On a hot summer night rich revellers disport on a pleasure-boat on the Sumida River in Edo (Tokyo). They have drawn up by a fishing boat to watch it. The print is signed 'The brush of Utamaro'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 22 Sep-14 Nov, Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, 'Kitagawa Utamaro'
2011 Feb 14- Jun 13, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1910,0614,0.16.1-3