Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Children Swimming in the Summer
Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
1797-1858
- Medium
- Woodblock print in colored ink on paper
- Classification
- Prints
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Robert H. Patterson
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Colorful clouds incept this summer scene. Children are swimming and playing in the indigo blue waters, as parents and family leisurely watch along the shore. This joyous scene is secretly tucked within two mountains, which are alive with bright green trees and grasses.
