# Women Beside a Stream Chasing Fireflies, in Chôbunsai Eishi

Chôbunsai Eishi designed this in about 1796–97, aged about 40. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> A group of women amuse themselves by chasing fireflies next to a stream. A sense of movement is conveyed by their sleeves fluttering in the breeze.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

[Read the full label](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/women-beside-a-stream-chasing-fireflies-cma-101861#about-work)

## The work

- Date: c. 1796–97
- Medium: woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 38.8 x 25.4 cm (15 1/4 x 10 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1920.523
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Chôbunsai Eishi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/chobunsai-eishi), Japanese, 1756–1829

Eishi was born into a high-ranking samurai family and studied painting with the Kanō master Kanō Eisen’in, serving for a time as a painter to the shogun Tokugawa Ieharu.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Chôbunsai Eishi's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-chobunsai-eishi?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/ukiyo-e?hang=749) (172 works)
- [18th-century Japan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-japan?hang=749) (92 works)

## Get it

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- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/women-beside-a-stream-chasing-fireflies-cma-101861)