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Woman Reading the Akashi Chapter of the Tale of Genji


源氏物語を読む女
Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active about 1696–1716)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (tan-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 56 x 32.1 cm (22 1/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1334
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 13 (1991), Rijksmuseum pl. 2; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 22 (this impression); Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 3 (1982), #234 (unsigned, attr. Masanobu); Ukiyo-e shûka 10 (1979), pl. 179
Signed Torii Kiyomasu
鳥居清倍
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross