↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · early 1830s
South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Ellen and Bruce Mavec · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · late 1700s–early 1800s
Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Gotenyama
- Date
- late 1700s–early 1800s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting: 56.6 x 87.7 cm (22 5/16 x 34 1/2 in.); Mounted: 159.4 x 89.9 cm (62 3/4 x 35 3/8 in.)
- Country / context
- Japan
- Movement / tradition
- Japanese art and printmaking
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- Japanese art and printmaking ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
A scene of cherry blossom viewing at Gotenyama (Palace Hill) in the city of Edo (now Tokyo), features five adults and a child at the top of the hill. At the center of the action, a courtesan lights her pipe from that of a fashionably dressed young man of samurai status, and smoke billows up to the sky.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
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↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · 1833
Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō
Utagawa Hiroshige
↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · c. 1793
The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women
Kitagawa Utamaro
↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · c. 1830
A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi