Cooling Off in the Evening at Shijogawara

A color woodblock triptych shows women on a wooden platform in the evening air. At left, figures sit and stand near a railing; the center panel shows a woman with a fan and a kneeling attendant beside a lantern, and at right a tall woman in a dark patterned robe gazes across the scene.

Artist

Torii Kiyonaga

Date

c. 1784

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 835 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection