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Three Actors at a Boating Party on the Sumida River


三俳優隅田川船遊び
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.3 x 76.3 cm (15 1/16 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7497-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #46 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #120, pls. 57-9; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #889, pl. LXXVI
DescriptionTriptych: 21.7497 (left), 21.7498 (center), 21.7499 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.14001-3, 11.20245 (fragments of two sheets), 21.7497-9

The actors are Ichikawa Komazô II, Iwai Hanshirô V, and Sawamura Sôjûrô III. The crane crest on the lanterns may indicate that the pubilsher was Tsuruya.
Signed Kiyonaga ga (on each sheet)
清長画
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.