Ichimura Takenojo and Sanjo Kantaro as a Pair of Lovers in the Yoshiwara

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Ichimura Takenojo and Sanjo Kantaro as a Pair of Lovers in the Yoshiwara

Torii Kiyonobu I

Date
early 1720s
Medium
hand-colored woodblock print
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Kiyonobu's prints are usually hand-colored and outlined in black. They often depict actors and scenes from plays. Kiyonobu's was largely responsible for introducing theater prints as commercial products. He is regarded as the founder of the Torii school, which with its close relationship to the theater, dominated printmaking for 75 years until the appearance of Shunsho in the late 1700s.

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