The One-Page Preface and Colophon from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"
Torii Kiyonaga
1787
Medium
Color woodblock print; pages from an illustrated book
Dimensions
Right sheet: 25.3 × 18.8 cm (10 × 7 7/16 in.); Left sheet: 25.3 × 18.8 cm (10 × 7 7/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
24959
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...