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Kintarô Painting a Kite with a Portrait of Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô in Shibaraku


凧絵を描く金太郎
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 24.5 cm (14 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.383
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #112 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #130; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #985, pl. LXIII
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1761, 54.383
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)