Women Distracting a Child whose Kite is caught in a Tree
- Date:
- c. 1800
- Medium:
- color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 20.4 × 55.6 cm
- Source:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Description
Women try to calm a frustrated child whose kite has become snarled in the high branches of a tree in this color woodblock print from around 1800. The subject combines the windy energy of kite-flying season (New Year) with the comedy of parental management, the child's upward gaze and outstretched arms mirrored by the women's consoling gestures in a pyramid of interlocking attention.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Women Distracting a Child whose Kite is caught in a Tree was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in c. 1800.
Women Distracting a Child whose Kite is caught in a Tree depicts children, daily life, and trees.
Women Distracting a Child whose Kite is caught in a Tree measures 20.4 × 55.6 cm (Oban format).