# Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

- By: Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
- Date: c. 1796–97
- Medium: One of a pentaptych of color woodblock prints
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Sheet: 38.2 x 24.2 cm (15 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Gift from J. H. Wade
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.364.b)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.364.b/1921.364.b_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.