Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River (Q60475562)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
Hokuba (Q11637181)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly:
Japan (Q17)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.262
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: After a major fire in Edo (now Tokyo), the Yoshiwara licensed brothel district was relocated to an area accessed via boat along the Sumida River, giving rise to many compositions depicting travel there. Here, attendants with checkered robes serve refreshment to a client. A figure at the fore of the boat tends to the kitchen. A courtesan at the aft, or rear, surveys the river scene. Acquaintances converse in modest commuter boats, and fishers put in to a tiny island. The boat is near the entrance to the San’ya Canal, where pleasure-seekers would disembark.
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