A Party in an Open Room Overlooking a Garden, from the series Contest of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase)

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A Party in an Open Room Overlooking a Garden, from the series Contest of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase)

「当世遊里美人合」　座敷酒宴

Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1783–84 (Tenmei 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 39 x 51.5 cm (15 3/8 x 20 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8407-8

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #1-21, reference photo p. 89 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #3.21, pls. 18-9; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #347, pl. LIII

DescriptionDiptych: 21.8407 (right), 21.8408 (left)

Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画

ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.