Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 76329

Print by Torii Kiyonaga (1812)

Artist / 作者
Torii Kiyonaga鳥居清長
Date / 年代
1812
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
Digital record / 画像記録
1332 × 1948 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Japanese Prints London
Published by / 公開者
小春ユイ
Rights / 権利
No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記
Japanese Prints London

Catalog note / 解説

A chubby red Kintaro acting as an umpire for two battling tengu. Other tengu in baskets behind him and at his side a bear also watches. These tengu – winged, beaked and clawed creatures – lived in the mountains and forests. It is narrated that as a toddler he was observed shaking and tearing at a large tree in which there was a nest of tengu fledglings, which he took home in a basket. Kiyonaga designed at least 28 of these Kintaro prints, see Kiyonaga, Chie Hirano, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939, nos. 979 – 1006 ( this being 1005, PLLXV ). Published by Nishimura, 1812. Rare. Very good impression and colour. Minor edge soil and signs of mounting au verso. Signed Kiyonaga hitsu. Status: Av…

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