Enjoying the Evening Cool Along the Sumida River

Kitagawa Utamaro • 1797

Enjoying the Evening Cool Along the Sumida River, 1797

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People crowding the Ryōgoku Bridge over the Sumida River and those aboard party boats below enjoy summer fireworks. Among a group gathered on the riverbank a little boy stands holding his caged pet cricket in one hand, and a young woman’s hand in the other. At left, a boy with a lantern advertising the name of the restaurant for which he works, “Ōnoshi,” guides two women away.