Courtesans and Their Child Attendants under Blossoming Cherry Trees
Torii Kiyonaga
1785
Medium
Color woodblock print; right and center sheets of oban triptych
Dimensions
38.0 × 25.3 cm (right sheet), 39.1 × 25.8 cm (center sheet)
Classification
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
89272
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...