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Torii Kiyonaga

Ten scenes around Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa (Asakusa kinryuzan jukkyo), ca. 1783

Description

Maker

  • Nishimuraya Yohachi, Japanese, publisher
  • Torii Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, Japanese

Title

Ten scenes around Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa (Asakusa kinryuzan jukkyo)

Year

ca. 1783

Medium

Polychrome wood block print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color,
  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Image: 21.4 x 15.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso bottom left: [Japanese Characters]; in a later hand, verso, bottom right: 18.

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1118

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Fan-Shaped Bird and Flower Prints from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

May 11 - June 30, 1990

While one woman stands delicately poised with a fan in her hand, another, seated in the shop, is busy making a toothbrush. The composition combines the quiet lyricism of two graceful women with fine realistic description of an Edo period urban setting.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Ten scenes around Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa (Asakusa kinryuzan jukkyo) with the accession number of 20.1118. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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