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Kunai-kyô (or Sei Shônagon?), from an untitled series of classical beauties


平安朝の美人 宮内卿 (清少納言?)
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1784 (Tenmei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 23.8 cm (13 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Art Institute of Chicago exchange
Accession Number34.1289
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #7-4, pl. 182; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #16; Ukiyo-e shûka 5, AIC 2 (1980), pl. 168; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #637, pl. LX
DescriptionPrints in the set:
Ono no Komachi, 21.5479
Lady Ise (or Akazome Emon?), 21.5613
Murasaki Shikibu, 11.1882
Kunai-kyô (or Sei Shônagon?), 34.1289
Nyosan no Miya, 19.61
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画