1819
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Tanabata, from the series Fashionable Children of the Five Festivals (Fūryū kodomo gosekku) is a 1819 by Kikukawa Eizan, a Romanticism work, depicting Reading, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a scene from the Tanabata festival in Japan. It's a celebration where people write wishes on papers and hang them on trees. The artist included many details about the festival, like the special clothes people wear and the food they eat, which gives us a glimpse into life in Japan during the Edo period. You can learn more about Japanese art and culture at the museum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Kikukawa Eizan was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school, and subsequently with Suzuki Nanrei (1775–1844), of the Shijō…
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