About "Fireworks in Ryogoku"
A six-folding screen, color on paper (96×301㎝ / 110×316㎝)
This work depicts a firework festival during the middle of the Edo period (the age of the eighth Shogun Yoshimune). Known as the oldest firework festival, it eventually developed into the current Sumida River Firework Festival. At the time, there were many pyrotechnists in Ryogoku, and people in Edo enjoyed fireworks as a major summer event. Unlike today, fireworks were hand-held, and pyrotechnists set them off from their boats. The artist is unknown but judging from the hand-held fireworks this work was paintedin mid to late Edo period. Capturing the details of pyrotechnists competing against each other, along with Edo children enjoying the scenery, this is truly a rare and precious piece that provides a feel of "Edo summer".
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