KIYONAGA: A Study of His Life and Works with a Portfolio of Plates in Color and Collotype (2 Vols.)
Chie Hirano
From Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 18 January 2021
From Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 18 January 2021
About this Item
Still the best description of his life and work, supplemented with a large format folio with 138 quality reproductions of his work (printed in Japan). Published for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by The Harvard Univ. Press, 1939. Volume I is text, volume II is a portfolio of plates. Text volume viii, 545 pages, 30 cm. Hardcover. No dust jacket.as issued. Volume II, has all plates called for: 8 color and 138 collotype. 13-1/44" x 19-1/4". Collotypes by Otsuka Kogeisha, Tokyo, Color prints by Shozaburo Watanabe, Tokyo. Shipds from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. Torii Kiyonaga, original name Sekiguchi Shinsuke, (born 1752, Sagami Province, Japan-died June 28, 1815, Edo [Tokyo]), one of the most important Japanese artists of the Ukiyo-e movement. He was the pupil of Torii Kiyomitsu and for a time headed the Torii school. Kiyonaga concentrated on the depiction of famous beauties. He designed many large nishiki-e, or polychrome prints, in diptych (two-panel) and triptych (three-panel) formats. Women in his prints were tall and stately, drawn with elegantly graceful lines in a realistic style. His best known works are Minami jūniko ("Twelve Months at the Gay Quarters"), TŠsei yūri bijin awase ("A Contest of Fashionable Beauties of the Gay Quarters"), and Fūzoku azuma no nishiki ("Life of Women Not Belonging to the Gay Quarters"). Hardcover and large format folio. Seller Inventory # 663K
Bibliographic Details
Title: KIYONAGA: A Study of His Life and Works with...
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st.
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