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Fishing with a Four-Armed Scoop-net (Yotsu Deami) (left component of triptych),

Alternative title(s): People in Covered Boat on River at Night [former descriptive title]

Color woodcut

Print impression quality: From worn block

Dimensions (Image): 354 x 233 mm (13.9 x 9.2 in.)

Dimensions (Sheet): 354 x 233 mm (13.9 x 9.2 in.)

Dimension notes: dimensions as trimmed for left panel; center panel as trimmed is image 352 x 237 mm, sheet 354 x 237

Utamaro Hitsuitsu; no publisher’s seal

Accession number: 1948.D2.348.1

Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1948

These two panels of a triptych depict two women and a man drinking (left panel) and a view of a boat through the net (center panel).

Bibliography: Ukiyo-e Taikei, vol. 6, pp. 73–75.

Work Type: print

Keywords: Click a term to find other records with the same keyword.

• boats
• nets (objects)
• night
• recreation
• rivers
• triptychs
• Ukiyo-e
• water
• night scenes

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