An Outing in Spring, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku azuma no nishiki)
Torii Kiyonaga
c. 1783/84
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban diptych
Dimensions
39.0 × 26.0 cm (right sheet), 38.4 × 26.1 cm (left sheet)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
21603
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...