Enjoying the Cool of Evening on the Riverbed at Shijō, c. 1834, Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shōzō, Japanese, 1797 - 1858, 8 11/16 × 14 in. (22 × cm) (image, horizontal ōban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, Kawadoko, a riverside dinner, is an ingenious way to enjoy a long summer evening with friends. As shown in this print, a kawadoko seating area is typically large enough to hold an entire party of people, and in this case, even accommodates a drunken dancer. According to tradition, a wealthy merchant in Kyoto started this style

---

Size: 4224px × 2678px
Location:
Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, 1574-1599, 1797, 1834, 1858, 19th, accommodates, area, case, century, color, cool, dancer, dining, dinner, drunken, enjoy, enjoying, entertain, entire, evening, friends, guests, hiroshige, hold, horizontal, hot, illuminated, image, ingenious, ink, japan, japanese, kawadoko, kawaguchiya, kyoto, lanterns, large, long, merchant, middle, momoyama, nishiki-, notoriously, paper, party, people, period, print, publisher, riverbed, riverside, seating, shijō, shown, shōō, started, style, summer, tradition, typically, utagawa, wealthy, woodblock, ōban