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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableAt the end of the 19th century the first Japanese woodblock prints came to Europe as cheap packaging material for imports. The artistic avant-garde was inspired, just think of the brightly colored works of Edgar Degas or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which are characterized by radical room layout and immediacy. But the influence was mutual: even the famous ukiyo-e artist Torii Kiyonaga had his Japanese beauties perform in front of a landscape that shows a horizon and also perspective in a typically Western manner. The ukiyo-e movement wanted to celebrate the fleeting life and pleasures of the day in the sense of a "carpe diem!
Torii Kiyonaga was one of the great masters of his craft. He studied with his stepfather Torii Kiyomitsu and created expressive images of actors of the Kabuki theatre with their mask-like distorted, heavily made-up faces. But unlike his teacher, he mainly showed the everyday pleasures of the upper middle-class society of Tokyo, then Edo, and other up-and-coming Japanese cities. He was born in Edo in 1752 as the son of a bookseller. Kiyonaga did not belong to the better society he wanted to portray, but he was far more talented than the natural son of his teacher, so that he was to follow in his teacher's footsteps. In his woodblock prints he presents us the daily tasks of the fine and fine-tuned society. Thus we become witnesses of a bathhouse scene in which clothed, but also naked women seem to be unobserved. A mother dries her baby - a scene of hitherto unknown realism. Are we perhaps the voyeur who seems to be looking through a hidden hatch? So are the women portrayed courtesans putting themselves on display? Well, the man could also be a sansuke who was a common masseur in Japanese bath houses. However, Kiyonaga also has more chaste scenes, for example of women in kimonos who are surprised by a shower and seek shelter under a temple roof or take a boat trip on a lake. Torii Kiyonaga also created a picture cycle over the twelve months, which shows us a lot about the Japanese society of the time and its refined customs. But playing children can be found all over the world, and these here from Japan are given in the most dynamic and vivid way. However, the children here seem to be barefoot in a snowball fight, which does not quite fit in with his reputation as a particularly realistic artist.
Torii Kiyonaga took over the Torii School from his teacher and passed on his knowledge and innovations to a younger generation of artists. To this day he is still considered the great master of bijin-ga, the depiction of beautiful styled women in exquisite settings - that's what you would say today. The master died in Edo in 1815, but his work still indirectly influenced the Japan-loving circles of the European art avant-garde almost a hundred years later.
At the end of the 19th century the first Japanese woodblock prints came to Europe as cheap packaging material for imports. The artistic avant-garde was inspired, just think of the brightly colored works of Edgar Degas or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which are characterized by radical room layout and immediacy. But the influence was mutual: even the famous ukiyo-e artist Torii Kiyonaga had his Japanese beauties perform in front of a landscape that shows a horizon and also perspective in a typically Western manner. The ukiyo-e movement wanted to celebrate the fleeting life and pleasures of the day in the sense of a "carpe diem!
Torii Kiyonaga was one of the great masters of his craft. He studied with his stepfather Torii Kiyomitsu and created expressive images of actors of the Kabuki theatre with their mask-like distorted, heavily made-up faces. But unlike his teacher, he mainly showed the everyday pleasures of the upper middle-class society of Tokyo, then Edo, and other up-and-coming Japanese cities. He was born in Edo in 1752 as the son of a bookseller. Kiyonaga did not belong to the better society he wanted to portray, but he was far more talented than the natural son of his teacher, so that he was to follow in his teacher's footsteps. In his woodblock prints he presents us the daily tasks of the fine and fine-tuned society. Thus we become witnesses of a bathhouse scene in which clothed, but also naked women seem to be unobserved. A mother dries her baby - a scene of hitherto unknown realism. Are we perhaps the voyeur who seems to be looking through a hidden hatch? So are the women portrayed courtesans putting themselves on display? Well, the man could also be a sansuke who was a common masseur in Japanese bath houses. However, Kiyonaga also has more chaste scenes, for example of women in kimonos who are surprised by a shower and seek shelter under a temple roof or take a boat trip on a lake. Torii Kiyonaga also created a picture cycle over the twelve months, which shows us a lot about the Japanese society of the time and its refined customs. But playing children can be found all over the world, and these here from Japan are given in the most dynamic and vivid way. However, the children here seem to be barefoot in a snowball fight, which does not quite fit in with his reputation as a particularly realistic artist.
Torii Kiyonaga took over the Torii School from his teacher and passed on his knowledge and innovations to a younger generation of artists. To this day he is still considered the great master of bijin-ga, the depiction of beautiful styled women in exquisite settings - that's what you would say today. The master died in Edo in 1815, but his work still indirectly influenced the Japan-loving circles of the European art avant-garde almost a hundred years later.
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1362046).jpg "Geisha with Closed Eyes by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Public bathhouse, 1780 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Kiyonaga Bathhouse Women by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Mother Watching Her Son Sleeping under a Mosquito Net by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1305232).jpg "Three Women (from the series A Brief Collection of Japanese Beauties) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Women by an Iris Pond, 1785 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Murasaki Shikibu by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "At Joetsu")
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.jpg "Pictures of Ten Styles Jittaiga Fuzoku: A Young Woman with a Dog by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Love Letter by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_Oeuvre_de_Torii_Kiyonaga_(1752-1815)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1323401).jpg "The Bathhouse Women by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Peony Show, ca. 1790 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Women on a Summer Evening (A Collection of Humorous Poems) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Woman in front of mirror while having her hair combed, ukiyo-e art print by Torii Kiyonaga by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Third Princess Onna San no Miya, ca. 1781-89 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Three Women from the Series A Brief Collection of Japanese Beauties by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Iris Garden by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Cutting the Toenails, the Toilet after the Bath by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Sudden Shower at the Mimeguri Shrine, 1787 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actors Sujuro III as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Nakamura Riko as Kiyotaki, Yamashita Mangiku as Masa by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Mother-in-Law Teasing the Bride, from the series A Collection of Humorous Poems by Torii Kiyonaga")
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 (see also 114572) - (MeisterDrucke-50204).jpg "Women of the Gay Quarters, Left Hand Panel of a Diptych by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Geisha of the Tachibana Street by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Senzan of Chojiya Strolling with her Kamuro Yasono and Yasoji and Two Shinzo, 1786 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Beauties_Illustrating_the_Four_Social_Classes_-_(MeisterDrucke-1277969).jpg "The Samurai (Shi) from the Series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Dance of the Beach Maidens by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Uranosuke Plays Blind Man")
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.jpg "Interior Scene, ca. 1788 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1290227).jpg "Enoshima, from the series \"Mount Fuji in the Four Seasons\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "An Oiran in Night Attire, Pausing, with One Hand on the Screen that Surrounds Her Bed by Torii Kiyonaga")
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Tien_zomertaferelen_in_de_Oo_-_(MeisterDrucke-1368156).jpg "The New Yoshiwara (Ten Summer Scenes in the Eastern Capital) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1277427).jpg "Treasured Admonitions to Young Women (Jijo hokun onna Imagawa) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Uma no Naishi, from the series")
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.jpg "Two Women on Matsuchi Hill Edo by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Iris Garden by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "A Doll Representing a Boy Playing a Flute by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371653).jpg "The Great Horse Circus from Osaka by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Kanjo: A Court Lady by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Four Women in Mitate as Ushiwaka Serenading Joruri-hime by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1274577).jpg "Asuka no Suika, from the series")
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.jpg "Group of Six Geisha Under the Cherry Trees on Gotenyama by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Four Court Ladies Listening to Yoshitsune")
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.jpg "Pleasure Boats below Azuma Bridge by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Forgetting Filial Piety by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Sei Shonagon and Her Companion, from an untitled series of court ladies by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Girls on the Seashore by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Woman Admiring Morning Glories while Brushing Her Teeth by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Three Women after a Bath, from the series \"A Brocade of Eastern Manners\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Young Men, One with a Priest")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1290066).jpg "Woman After a Bath, from \"Comparison of Alluring Beauties\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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 1783 (colour woodblock p - (MeisterDrucke-94738).jpg "Young woman wearing a wide straw hat, followed by a servant and a companion carrying a")
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.jpg "Two Women and a Girl Under a Blooming Cherry Tree by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_A_Collection_of_Con_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272132).jpg "Flowers of the Doteshita District, from the series")
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.jpg "The Actor Sakata Hangoro II as Kobayashi no Asahina, Edo Period, 1775 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Brine Maidens of Suma Shiokumi, Suma, 1783 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Yoshino and Tatsuta, from the series \"Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Playing Blind Man")
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.jpg "Two Daughters of a Bannerman with a Serving Woman and a Young Man by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Courtesan Nioteru of the Ogiya, with Her Two Attendants Namiji and Ao by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Tall Young Women Walking Hand in Hand by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Onami and Menami, from the series")
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_from_the_illustrated_book_-_(MeisterDrucke-1284243).jpg "The First Calligraphy of the New Year (Kissho hajime), from the illustrated book \"Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesans Senzan, Yasono, and Yasoji of the Chojiya by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "A Girl with a Pipe by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_illustrated_bo_-_(MeisterDrucke-1276403).jpg "The First Archery Practice of the New Year, from the illustrated book")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1365667).jpg "Hasty Love by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Scene of the Drama Oakinai Hiru-ga-Koshima by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Actors Representing the Feat of Asahina Breaking the Armor of Soga no Goro, from the series")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1291039).jpg "Gyokkashi Eimo before Executing Calligraphy by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Miyanoshita Name of One of the Hot Springs at Hakone by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Beauties Under a Maple Tree, from the series")
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.jpg "Festival at the Komeikan Teahouse by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Go_Taiheiki_S_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272622).jpg "Scene at the Ishido Mansion, from the series Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Ninth Month, from the series Twelve Months in the South by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Entertainers of Nakazu, from the Series A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Viewing the Bush Clover at Hagidera by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Sawamura Sojuro III and Arashi Murajiro as Kusunoki Masatsura and Koto no Naishi by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV with his family, from an untitled series of four prints showing Actors in private life by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_s_-_(MeisterDrucke-1278564).jpg "A Mirror on a Stand Suggesting the Autumnal Moon, from the Series")
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.jpg "Scene in Nakasu, a District of Edo, 1783 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Three Women Visiting a Jizo Shrine by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Flowers_of_N_-_(MeisterDrucke-1299074).jpg "Two Geisha Struggling for a Letter, from the series \"Flowers of Nakasu\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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Furyu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371311).jpg "The Hour of the Monkey Elegant Representations of the Twelve Hours (series title) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Bando Mitsugoro II as Tennen no Mansaku-kitsune and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Nikaido Shinanonosuke and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okura no Kojoro-kitsune in the scene from the drama Moto Mishi Yuki Sakae Hachi-no-ki by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Yoshitsune Serenading Joruri Hime by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Idle Broom by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1289762).jpg "Snowy Morning in the Pleasure Quarters by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "A Woman and Two Maids, from the series")
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.jpg "Two Geisha Preceded by a Maid Carrying a Lantern by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Buying Potted Plants: Brocades of the East by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Yoshitsune Serenading Jorurihime by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Ferryboat on the Rokugo River by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Geisha on a Balcony by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Actors in a Shosa Combination of Acting and Dancing Performance by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Lovers Crossing a River by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Toji of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Satoji and Uraji, from the series \"Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Fashi_-_(MeisterDrucke-1281735).jpg "A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm, from the series \"Eight Fashionable Scenes of the Parlor\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
.jpg "Brothel Client with Courtesan by Torii Kiyonaga")
_by_Torii_Kiyonaga_-_(MeisterDrucke-980136).jpg "Women")
_circa_1785_T_-_(MeisterDrucke-1025148).jpg "Women in a Public Bath. Japanese Print by Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815), Circa 1785 by Torii Kiyonaga")