Enjoying the Cool Air at Nakasu (Sakô suzumi), from the series A Contest of Fashionable Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase)

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Enjoying the Cool Air at Nakasu (Sakô suzumi), from the series A Contest of Fashionable Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase)

「当世遊里美人合　叉江涼」

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; 38 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5637

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #8; Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #1-14, pl. 076; Motegi et al, Musical Instruments (Ôta Memorial Museum, 2005), #20; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #3.14, pl. 98; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #340, pl. LII

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13892, 21.5637

Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画

ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.