Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 75612
A Young Girl Reading a Letter as a Woman Looks On
- Artist / 作者
- Torii Kiyonaga鳥居清長
- Date / 年代
- 1773-1776
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / vam
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1488 × 2000 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 青木ソラ
- Rights / 権利
- Commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Catalog note / 解説
Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815) was a great print designer and painter of the Torii school whose own Kiyonaga style came to dominate the world of ukiyo-e, or 'pictures of the Floating World'. His special province was the portrayal of beautiful women. Prints depicting the daily lives of women and children with wit and parody were popular with the urban middles classes at this time, and many were based on the well-known series of Chinese paintings 'Eight Famous Views of Xiao Xiang'. This print was part of such a series by Kiyonaga, entitled 'The Eight Famous Interior Scenes'. It is a mitate-e, or 'allusion print': the cotton on the lacquered pail alludes to the evening snow of the Chinese painting…
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