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Kitagawa Utamaro

Fishing at Iwaya on Enoshima

c. 1790
triptych of color woodblock prints

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The island Enoshima in Kanagawa prefecture in eastern Japan, near the city of Kamakura, is one home of the goddess Benzaiten, who is associated with water as well as music and entertainment. The island’s Iwaya caves were for centuries a place for meditative retreat, but by the time this scene near their entrance was printed, pilgrimages combining religious sentiment with touristic intent were popular, and remain so today.

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