# Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River, in Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro designed this in about 1800, aged about 42. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In this triptych (a composition of three prints), a nighttime drinking party on a pleasure boat is interrupted by an encounter with a fishing boat on the Sumida River in Edo (now Tokyo).

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1800
- Medium: Triptych of color woodblock prints
- Dimensions: Overall: 38.6 x 25.4 cm (15 3/16 x 10 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.1116
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Kitagawa Utamaro](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kitagawa-utamaro), Japanese, c.1753–1806

Utamaro trained with the painter Toriyama Sekien and rose to fame in the 1790s with the support of the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō.

12 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Kitagawa Utamaro's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-kitagawa-utamaro?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)

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