WOMAN VIEWING CHERRY BLOSSOMS ON THE BANK OF THE SUMIDA RIVER (SUMIDAGAWA HANA NO KEI)
Gallery mode Full size at the museum

Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.

Woman viewing Cherry Blossoms on the Bank of the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hana no kei)

Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786 – 1864)

ca. 1840

Medium
woodblock print on paper
Classification
Prints
Dimensions
350 × 245 mm (13 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Culture
Japan
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Transfer from the Cooper Union Picture Library
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

Vertical rectangle. Standing woman in a landscape, turned three-quarters left, her gaze directed over her left shoulder. A blossoming bush in the right foreground, and a tree in the left background.