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Author: Yōshū Chikanobu (揚州周延).
Title: Sunset on Sumida river (Sumidagawa Sekisho, 隅田川夕照).
Series: Eight views of modern Tōkyō (ima yō Tōkyō hakkei, 今様東京八景).
Genre: bijin-ga (美人画), kaika-e (開化絵), meisho-e (名所絵).
Size: large (ōban, 大判) 36,5cm x 24,3cm (14,37 x 9,56 inches).
Publisher: Haegawa Sonokichi (長谷川園吉).
Period: c. 1888.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: YSK01001
Condition: good condition. Color is clear and vivid all over the print. Any crease, hole nor signs of
fixings. Stain can be noticed both on the right and bottom frames, but is not remarkable.
Three beautiful women on a boat sailing the Sumida river in Tōkyō, probably on a spring day as can be noticed
from the cherry blossom that the standing woman is looking at.
Flowing through central Tōkyō to the Tōkyō bay the Sumida river has often been a key element in Japanese poetry,
literature and woodblock printing.