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At Edo-machi Itchôme, Dances with Jôruri and Nagauta Music on Alternate Days; Mutsumashizuki Koi no Tetori, with Jôruri; from the series The Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô Niwaka zukushi)


「青楼仁和嘉尽 江戸町一丁目 浄瑠璃名賀哥一日替り 浄瑠璃 睦月恋手取(むつましつきこひのてとり)」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1783 (Tenmei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban, right sheet of diptych; 25.5 x 19.5 cm (10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5579
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #178-3, pl. 163; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #222.2; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), pl. 73; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #496, pl. XXX
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete diptych.
The performance was inspired by a dance play of the same title, Mutsumashizuki Koi no Tetori, performed at the Nakamura Theater in 1782.11; see 11.30355.
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.