Torii KIYONAGA
(Japan 1752–1815)
- Title
- (Girls carrying water for salt-making)
- Other titles:
- Girls at sea shore
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 1780s
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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66.7 x 11.1cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Kiyonaga ga [picture by Kiyonaga]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1952
- Accession number
- 8666
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (4)
-
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. M11
Verlie Just (Australia) (Author), Four Centuries of Ukiyo-e Prints, Brisbane, 1997. cat.no. 12
Gary Hickey (Author), Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan, Parkes, 1998, 50, 51 (colour illus.), 71. plate no. 7
KUKI Shûzô (Japan, b.1888, d.1941) (Author), John Clark (Australia) (Translater), Reflections on Japanese taste: the structure of iki, Sydney, 1997, 110 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.
Four Centuries of Ukiyo-e Prints, Queensland Art Gallery, 07 May 1997–27 Jul 1997.
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998.
