Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River
Torii Kiyonaga
c. 1784
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban diptych
Dimensions
37.9 × 51.5 cm (overall), 37.7 × 25.6 cm (right sheet), 37.9 × 25.9 cm (left sheet)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
190436
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...