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三俳優隅田川船遊び
Three Actors at a Boating Party on the Sumida River
三俳優隅田川船遊び
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 38.3 x 76.3 cm (15 1/16 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7497-9
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #46 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #120, pls. 57-9; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #889, pl. LXXVI
DescriptionTriptych: 21.7497 (left), 21.7498 (center), 21.7499 (right)
MFA impressions: 11.14001-3, 11.20245 (fragments of two sheets), 21.7497-9
The actors are Ichikawa Komazô II, Iwai Hanshirô V, and Sawamura Sôjûrô III. The crane crest on the lanterns may indicate that the pubilsher was Tsuruya.
MFA impressions: 11.14001-3, 11.20245 (fragments of two sheets), 21.7497-9
The actors are Ichikawa Komazô II, Iwai Hanshirô V, and Sawamura Sôjûrô III. The crane crest on the lanterns may indicate that the pubilsher was Tsuruya.
Signed
Kiyonaga ga (on each sheet)
清長画
清長画
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.