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A Scene of the Southern Station (Minami eki no kei), from the series Contest of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase)


「当世遊里美人合 南駅景」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1783 (Tenmei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.9 x 26 cm (15 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1268
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #1-13, pl. 075; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #3.13, pl. 2; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #339, pl. LII
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1268, 21.5641
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross