Art, literature & history
Third Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
汐干五番内 其三
c. 1830
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- color woodblock print from a pentaptych
- Dimensions
- 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1916.1108.c
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Third Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych. Utagawa Kuniyoshi; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Third Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych — Utagawa Kuniyoshi. c. 1830.
Medium: color woodblock print from a pentaptych. Dimensions: 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This is one of five surimono, privately commissioned prints, making up an image of people collecting sea life at low tide. Ten witty poems, written by members of a poetry circle, appear across the upper part of the composition, with two poems on each print. Based in Edo (now Tokyo), the group was led by Hisakataya Misora (active 1810s–30s), who wrote four of the poems. This composition may have been printed in April, which was considered the best time for beachcombing.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.