Torii Kiyomasu II
Japanese, active early 18th century
Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook (Soshiarai Komachi)
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Torii Kiyomasu II
Japanese, active early 18th centuryEdo period (1615–1868), 1735/40
Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook (Soshiarai Komachi)
Torii Kiyomasu II Japanese, active early 18th century →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
Edo period (1615–1868), 1735/40
Medium
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban
Dimensions
29.6 × 16 cm (11 11/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
In this first print from a series showing seven scenes from the life of Ono no Komachi, the poet washes a book to remove text recently added by a rival poet, Ōtomo no Kuronushi, likely depicted as the angry figure on the right.
This image was printed in black ink and then hand colored. The artist, Torii Kiyomasu II, came from the famous Torii line of printmakers, who specialized in depictions of actors, birds, historical subjects, and flowers. They made up one of the principal schools of artists around when the birth of the Japanese popular print took place, during the Edo period.
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