Print & drawing
Ichimura Takenojo and Sanjo Kantaro as a Pair of Lovers in the Yoshiwara
Torii Kiyonobu I
early 1720s
From the archive
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.
- Associated place
- Japan
- Material & technique
- hand-colored woodblock print
The record behind the work
Place & date
The museum gives the cultural attribution “Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)”. The pin represents this broad cultural association, not a verified creation site or depicted location.
The archive gives an approximate date or a range of years. The timeline uses that same range.
Source & reuse
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Source ID: 147985
CC0 — image and metadata released under the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access program. Published from the United States.
