The Actor Nakamura Riko with a courtesan, from an untitled series of aiban prints depicting Actors in private life
Torii Kiyonaga
c. 1781/82
Medium
Color woodblock print; aiban
Dimensions
32.8 × 23.3 cm (12 15/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22547
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...