The Owada Eel Shop
Artist/Culture
Katsukawa Shuntei
(1770-1820)
DateHare year 1807
Mediummulticolored woodblock print; triptych
Dimensions36.8 x 77.3 cm (14 1/2 x 30 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.135
DescriptionInterior of a large eating-house. At the right a woman stands beside a pil of baskets filled with eels. In back of her a man cuts up one fish on a table. At the left a woman is broiling slices on a long rack laid over a fire, and a woman who appears to be the propietor is making our bills to be presented to guests. Waitresses pass to and froOn View
Not on view
Utagawa Hiroshige I 歌川 広重
about 1840
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡 芳年
October 4, 1877
