A Ferryboat Crossing the Sumida River
by Keisai Eisen
- Date:
- c. 1820s
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A ferryboat carrying several passengers in wide conical hats is poled across a wide river toward the lower left, with a cluster of ducks swimming nearby on the water. The far bank shows a thatched-roof house, trees, and open fields beneath a low mountain silhouette, while flowering branches in pink and green frame the foreground on both sides. The palette is soft and muted—pale cream, sage green, dusty pink, and light indigo—giving the scene a quiet, hazy calm; a color woodblock shikishiban surimono by Keisai Eisen, 1820.
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1843/46
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Distant View of Snow on the Sumida River in Edo
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A Ferryboat Crossing the Sumida River was created by Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) in c. 1820s.