An Actors' Boating Party on the Sumida River
c. 1789
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Dimensions
Right sheet: 36.8 × 25.1 cm (14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.); Center sheet: 36.8 × 25.1 cm (14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.); Left sheet: 36.9 × 25.2 cm (14 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
5469
About the Artist
Torii Kiyonaga · 1752–1815
Torii Kiyonaga, born Sekiguchi Shinsuke in 1752 in Uraga, Sagami Province, was the son of an Edo bookseller who owned tenements near a bustling fish market. At age 14 in 1765, he began his apprenticeship under Torii Kiyomitsu, the third-generation head of the prestigious Torii school of ukiyo-e, renowned for kabuki theater illustrations and signage. Adopted into the Torii family, Kiyonaga succeede...