Bando Mitsugoro II as Tennen no Mansaku-kitsune and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Nikaido Shinanonosuke and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okura no Kojoro-kitsune in the scene from the drama Moto Mishi Yuki Sakae Hachi-no-ki (Nidaime Bando Mitsugoro no Tennen no mansaku-kitsune, nidaime Ichikawa Monnosuke no Nikaido Shinanonosuke, yondaime Iwai Hanshiro no Okura no kojyoro-kitsune)
Torii Kiyonaga
1778
Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e, triptych
Dimensions
38.4 × 25.4 cm (15 1/8 × 10 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22517
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...