Block printing: Torii Kiyonaga [009]

Tierney, Lennox

Publication date

January 1949

Publisher

Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

Abstract

Photograph of a block print: possibly known as "A Scene of the Southern Station", (from the series Contest of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase) circa 1783), by Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815), vertical ôban, (approximate size, may vary) 39.4 x 26.3 cm (15 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815), circa 1780s, Japan. Hand-colored