Dog (Inu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)"
Torii Kiyonaga
c. 1782
Medium
Color woodblock print; hashira-e
Dimensions
68.4 × 11.9 cm (26 15/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23234
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...