Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge

Kitagawa Utamaro • 1790

Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge, 1790

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People crowding the Ryōgoku Bridge over the Sumida River and those aboard party boats below enjoy summer fireworks. Among a group gathered on the riverbank a little boy stands holding his caged pet cricket in one hand, and a young woman’s hand in the other.