The Manpachi at Evening in Yanagibashi

Two women in patterned kimono lean on a railing of a wooden walkway above the water, while figures sit inside a long two-storey teahouse with latticed windows. Small boats drift on the river beneath a dusky sky, and a fan-shaped cartouche above holds the title.

Look closer: Figures seated in the lit upper room of the teahouse, visible through the lattice windows.

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1835–42

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1937 × 1326 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1919