The Seventh Month -Evening Send-Off

Catalog note / 解説

Torii Kiyonaga was an ukiyo-e artist who specialized in bijinga (pictures of beautiful women). His women typically are tall and slender with idealized proportions, as seen in this print. The South in the series title, Twelve Months in the South (Minami Jünikö) indicates an unofficial pleasure quarter of Shinagawa in the southern suburbs of Edo (modern Tokyo). The publisher originally planned to produce a series depicting different places for each month. However, prints were only published up to the seventh month before the series was cancelled, probably due to budgetary constraints. Each print was made from several different color blocks with beautiful patterns. This is the only month from…