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Leftmost Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge by Chōbunsai Eishi — Japanese woodblock print from a pentaptych; ink and color on paper, c. 1792

Leftmost Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge

by Chōbunsai Eishi

Ukiyo-e
Bridges
Date:
c. 1792
Medium:
woodblock print from a pentaptych; ink and color on paper

Description

Two women in patterned kimono (one salmon-pink with a floral/foliage pattern, one rust-orange, one holding an open fan) stand at the bow of a roofed pleasure boat, while a boatman crouches over cargo at the boat's edge and another seated figure in green looks on from beneath the boat's wooden framework. The scene is set on the Sumida River, rendered in soft pink, tan, sage green, and black on aged paper, with the river's rippling waves in the foreground and a distant shoreline of low buildings, trees, and a bridge with figures in a small rowboat under muted grey sky. This is the leftmost sheet of a pentaptych titled "Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge," a woodblock print in ink and color on paper by Chōbunsai Eishi, 1792.

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Leftmost Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge was created by Chōbunsai Eishi (鳥文斎栄之) in c. 1792.

Leftmost Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge depicts bridges.