Kiyonaga | Tachibana Neighborhood Geisha and Child
Artist: Kiyonaga Torii 鳥居 清長 (1752-1815)
Date: ~1785, 1963 Reprint
Publisher: Unknown (~1785); Shūeisha (1963)
Title: Tachibana Neighborhood Geisha and Child | Tachibana-Cho Geisha to Otoko
Series: Contemporaty Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters | Tosei Yuri Bijin-Awase
Medium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paper
Size: 39cm x 26cm (O-ban Diptych)
The twenty-one known designs concentrate on customs of the unllicensed pleasure quarters (okabasho), which flourished in Edo in the 1780s under the relatively lax regime of Tanuma Okitsugu. Chie Hirano, the great scholar of Kiyonaga and his works, suggested that the two young women depicted here in matching kimono are dancing girls from the unlicensed quarter at Tachinbana-cho, not far from the west end of Ryogoku bridge. This was a famous haunt of geisha, and other entertainers who worked as illicit prostitutes. (Label copy, TTC, 1999.) (Source: British Museum)
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Kiyonaga ga | 清長画
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