Catalog record · 目録番号 75612
A Young Girl Reading a Letter as a Woman Looks On
Catalog note / 解説
Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815) was a great print designer and painter of the Torii school whose own Kiyonaga style came to dominate the world of ukiyo-e, or 'pictures of the Floating World'. His special province was the portrayal of beautiful women. Prints depicting the daily lives of women and children with wit and parody were popular with the urban middles classes at this time, and many were based on the well-known series of Chinese paintings 'Eight Famous Views of Xiao Xiang'. This print was part of such a series by Kiyonaga, entitled 'The Eight Famous Interior Scenes'. It is a mitate-e, or 'allusion print': the cotton on the lacquered pail alludes to the evening snow of the Chinese painting…
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · mid 1770s · vam
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