The Actors Azuma Tozo III and Otani Tokuji, from a pentaptych of eleven actors celebrating the festival of the shrine of the Soga brothers
Torii Kiyonaga
1788
Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban, pentaptych (second sheet from the right)
Dimensions
31.8 × 14.6 cm (12 9/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22790
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...