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Woman Painting Her Lips, from the series Comparison of Beauties in Eastern Brocade (Azuma nishiki bijin awase)


「東錦美人合」 口紅
Torii Kiyomitsu II (Kiyomine) (Japanese, 1787–1868)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804–10 (Bunka 1–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 25.4 cm (15 1/4 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6927
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura (1919), #232; another print in the series: Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #59; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #1621
Signed Kiyomine hitsu
清峰筆
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#203); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.