Eleven Actors Celebrating the Festival of the Shrine of the Soga Brothers

Arts of Asia

1788

Torii Kiyonaga
Japanese, 1752-1815

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Torii Kiyonaga
Title: Eleven Actors Celebrating the Festival of the Shrine of the Soga Brothers
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1783–1793
Medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e, pentaptych
Inscriptions: Signature: Kiyonaga ga
Dimensions: 31.8 × 71.0 cm (total); 31.1 × 13.8 cm (first sheet from the right), 31.8 × 14.6 cm (second sheet from the right), 31.4 × 14.5 cm (third sheet from the right), 31.5 × 14.3 cm (fourth sheet from the right); 31.4 × 13.8 cm (fifth sheet from the right) 31.8 × 71.0 cm
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1925.2687, 1930.385, 1934.250-252
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Chiba City Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), no. 253,

“Torii Kiyonaga, the Birth of Venus in Edo”, organized by Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba Japan, April 28 - June 10, 2007.

First sheet from the left: The Baron Fujita Family Collection. Yamanaka & Company; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Apr. 1930; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1930.
Second sheet from the left: William Henry Ketcham, New York; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1895; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Third to fifth sheet from the left: Charles Hibbard Chandler (1859–1946), Evanston, IL; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, June 21, 1934; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 21, 1934.

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