Five Musicians (Gonin bayashi)
Torii Kiyonaga
c. 1783
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban pentaptych
Dimensions
(1) 25.6 × 19.4 cm; (2) 25.7 × 19.4 cm; (3) 25.6 × 19.2 cm; (4) 25.5 × 19.0 cm; (5) 25.6 × 19.4 cm
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22628
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...