Net Fishing at Night
1800
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1800
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Net Fishing at Night is a 1800 by Kitagawa Utamaro, a Romanticism work, depicting Fishing, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a boat on a river at night with people fishing and others having fun. The scene is interesting because it shows how people in Edo enjoyed their free time. They would often go boating on the Sumida River to escape the summer heat. Check out the work of artist Kitagawa Utamaro for more scenes of everyday life in Japan.
Pleasure-boating in the evening on the Sumida River to escape the summer’s heat was about as popular as viewing cherry blossoms in spring for Edo townspeople. The river also led the way to the Yoshiwara, the licensed brothel district. A boating party with courtesans and gentlemen jostles up next to a fishing boat. Utamaro enjoyed portraying a scene through the design of a fishing or mosquito net. The different colors of the net suggest these impressions may be from two different series.
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