Five Popular Actors as the Gonin Otoko or Five Otokodate, in "Ume Wakana Futaba Soga"
Torii Kiyohiro
ca. 1755
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
H. 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm); W. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
JP1449
Tags
MenActors
About the Artist
Torii Kiyohiro · 1737–1776
Torii Kiyohiro (active 1737–1776) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and a member of the celebrated Torii school, one of the oldest and most distinguished lineages in the history of Japanese woodblock printing. The Torii school had been founded in the late seventeenth century and built its reputation on the creation of billboards and illustrated programs for the Kabuki theater in Edo, and Kiyohiro carr...