Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

Description

A pleasure boat named Kawaichimaru is filled with entertainers in this expansive scene. At the vessel’s right end, a young dancer waits as her costume’s hat is arranged. In the middle, a trio of musicians performs, two on drums and another on shamisen, a three-stringed instrument. Listening to them is an elegant woman smoking her pipe. At the left end, three women, one on a neighboring boat, enjoy a spectacular floral arrangement of pine, lily, and iris on a lacquer stand.

Provenance

Hayashi Tamdamasa; Carl William Schraubstadter [1862–1947] (?–1921); (American Art Association, February 11, 1921 sale, lot 315) (February 11, 1921); (Yamanaka & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (1921); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1921–)

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

Chōbunsai Eishi

c. 1796–97

Accession Number

1921.364

Medium

Pentaptych of woodblock prints

Dimensions

Overall: 38.4 x 24.2 cm (15 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift from J. H. Wade