TORII KIYOTADA II (d. 1856)*

COURTESAN ARRIVING TO MEET HER CLIENT AT A TEAHOUSE EDO PERIOD, BUNKA ERA (1804-18)

Details

TORII KIYOTADA II (d. 1856)*
Courtesan arriving to meet her client at a teahouse
Edo period, Bunka era (1804-18)
Signed Torii Kiyotada ga, sealed Torii and another illegible seal
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on paper
50 x 32in. (128.3 x 83.8cm.)

Exhibited

"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art," shown at the following venues:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9
Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, "Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/'Fashion of Edo': Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings," 1989.6.14--7.2

"The Floating World Revisited," shown at the following venues:
Portland Art Museum, 1993.10.26--12.30
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.2.2--4.2

Lot Essay

published:

Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 45.

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/"Fashion of Edo": Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1989), pl. 43.

Donald Jenkins, The Floating World Revisited, exh. cat. (Portland: Portland Art Museum, 1993), pl. II-10.

Kobayashi Tadashi, Ukiyo-e miryoku: Edo no shomin bunka (The charm of ukiyo-e: Edo popular culture) (Tokyo: Bijinesu Kyoiku Shuppansha, 1992), p. 219.

_____, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 28.

Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Kiyonaga and Shigemasa, vol. 5 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, edited by Narazaki Muneshige (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1983), pl. 28.