Chinese Girls Playing Cards, No. 8 from the series The Children Say "This Is Japan!" and Play the Games That They See in the Picturebooks (Yôdô iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezôshi o mite yori sono gai o asobu)

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Chinese Girls Playing Cards, No. 8 from the series The Children Say "This Is Japan!" and Play the Games That They See in the Picturebooks (Yôdô iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezôshi o mite yori sono gai o asobu)

「幼童云此奴和日本　八」　かるた取り

Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1791 (Kansei 3)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.6 x 18.6 cm (9 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.641

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #199-8 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #253.8; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #928, pl. XLV

Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross