Object Details
- Description
- Painting is one of a set of eight scenes of daily life in Tokyo by Ogata Gekko. This composition focuses on the bridge, Nihonbashi, in the foreground. At dawn, two men carry loads of fish over the bridge as a woman, most likely an entertainer ending her long evening, walks across in the opposite direction. The bird flying overhead is a common motif in ukiyo-e paintings of courtesans. Scroll contained in modern wooden box with lid.
- Signatures
- Artist's signature and seal
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Ogata Gekko 尾形月耕 (1859-1920)
- Date
- 1919
- Period
- Taisho era
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the Estate of Robert O. Muller — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art and the Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund
- Medium
- Color on silk
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 107.2 × 35.1 cm (42 3/16 × 13 13/16 in)
- Type
- Painting
