TORII KIYONAGA

Everything considered, the greatest artist of the Ukiyoé school and the culminating figure in its forward movement. He was born in 1742 and died in 1815. His finest prints were designed between 1780 and 1790.

LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM.

116The Writing-lesson.
117Fair travellers resting on a bench by the roadside.

LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED.

118Two geishas entertaining a young man.
119Court ladies on the engawa of a palace.

LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD.

120Three girls going to the baths at the hot springs near Miyanoshita.
121Man and two women masquerading in komuso̅ attire.
122Group of three women and a boy.
123Two women standing beside a seated geisha who is playing on a samisen.
124Yoshiwara beauty attended by two women (shinzo) and two girls (kamuro).
125Two young women and a servant on the balcony of an inn.
126Family group on their way to a temple for the naming ceremony of the boy who is carried on the shoulders of an attendant.
127An actor and two women examining utensils for the tea ceremony.
128Women and children promenading in summer costume.
129Scene from a drama. Two actors playing the game of “go” with mume blossoms, and a third actor as a woman in the rôle of an umpire standing between them.
130Two young women walking under an umbrella and followed by a servant.
131Man in a black haori approaching a temple through the snow, accompanied by two women.
132Diptych. Group of women under a cherry tree.
133Diptych. Holiday group under the cherry trees at Gotenyama. One of a series of twelve diptychs that are among Kiyonaga's finest works.
134Boating party under Ryogoku bridge. Two sheets of a triptych.
135Triptych. The Peony (botan) Show.
136Triptych. Women landing from a pleasure boat.

LENT BY A COLLECTOR.

137Hashira-yé. Woman in winter costume.
138Triptych. A picnic party under the cherry trees.
139Group of women on the bank of the Sumida river.
140Group of women near a temple.
141Three women at a public bath-house.