Kiyonaga: Beauty Greeting a Girl (Sold)

Artist: Torii Kiyonaga
Title: Beauty Greeting a Girl
Series: “A Collection of Humorous Poems”
Date: 1780s

A young woman greets a girl a the entrance to a house. In the other room we can see the corner of a koto and a sake cup. The poem reads “Even a kept mistress gives koto lessons to two or three pupils”. Provenence: Vever

Dimensions: chûban
Literature: Shown in Vever Collection by Hillier; number 369, Vol I, 1976.
Signature: Kiyonaga ga

SKU: NETB07