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Artists›Torii Kiyonaga

Torii Kiyonaga

1752–1815

Japan

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290

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312

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Torii Kiyonaga was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller, from Motozaimokuchō Itchōme in Edo, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as an art name. Although not biologically related to the Torii family, he became head of the group after the death of his adoptive father and teacher Torii Kiyomitsu.

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「風俗東之錦」　武家の息女と侍女と若党 |A Lady from a Samurai Household with Three Attendants, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fūzoku Azuma no nishiki)

1810 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

15 1/4 x 10 3/8 in. (38.7 x 26.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Surimono commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of the actor Iwai Hanshiro III

1804 · Color woodblock print; surimono

42.7 × 30.4 cm (16 13/16 × 12 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Saruwaka Dance

1804 · Color woodblock print; surimono

38.3 × 52.9 cm (15 1/8 × 20 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Doll Festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)"

1796 · Color woodblock print; oban

39 × 25.1 cm (15 3/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Tanabata Festival, from the from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)"

1796 · Color woodblock print; oban

36.4 × 23.4 cm (14 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The New Year's Festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)"

1796 · Color woodblock print; oban

38.5 × 25.7 cm (15 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chrysanthemum festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)"

1796 · Color woodblock print; oban

36.8 × 24.1 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Outdoor Amusements at the Kankanro Teahouse in Yoshiwara

1789 · Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych

36.9 × 24.3 cm (14 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Brothel Client with Courtesan (ca. 1784)

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Feast in the Komeikan Teahouse (1787 - 1792)

Rijksmuseum

Three Women (from the series A Brief Collection of Japanese Beauties) (1781)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman of the Yoshiwara and Attendants (from the series Brocades of the East in Fashion) (1752–1815)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Courtesan Holding a Dog (from the series Popular Presentations) (1783)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Sawamura Sojuro III and Arashi Murajiro as Kusunoki Masatsura and Koto no Naishi (1786)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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