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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableAt the end of the 19th century the first Japanese woodblock prints came to Europe as cheap packaging material for imports. The artistic avant-garde was inspired, just think of the brightly colored works of Edgar Degas or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which are characterized by radical room layout and immediacy. But the influence was mutual: even the famous ukiyo-e artist Torii Kiyonaga had his Japanese beauties perform in front of a landscape that shows a horizon and also perspective in a typically Western manner. The ukiyo-e movement wanted to celebrate the fleeting life and pleasures of the day in the sense of a "carpe diem!
Torii Kiyonaga was one of the great masters of his craft. He studied with his stepfather Torii Kiyomitsu and created expressive images of actors of the Kabuki theatre with their mask-like distorted, heavily made-up faces. But unlike his teacher, he mainly showed the everyday pleasures of the upper middle-class society of Tokyo, then Edo, and other up-and-coming Japanese cities. He was born in Edo in 1752 as the son of a bookseller. Kiyonaga did not belong to the better society he wanted to portray, but he was far more talented than the natural son of his teacher, so that he was to follow in his teacher's footsteps. In his woodblock prints he presents us the daily tasks of the fine and fine-tuned society. Thus we become witnesses of a bathhouse scene in which clothed, but also naked women seem to be unobserved. A mother dries her baby - a scene of hitherto unknown realism. Are we perhaps the voyeur who seems to be looking through a hidden hatch? So are the women portrayed courtesans putting themselves on display? Well, the man could also be a sansuke who was a common masseur in Japanese bath houses. However, Kiyonaga also has more chaste scenes, for example of women in kimonos who are surprised by a shower and seek shelter under a temple roof or take a boat trip on a lake. Torii Kiyonaga also created a picture cycle over the twelve months, which shows us a lot about the Japanese society of the time and its refined customs. But playing children can be found all over the world, and these here from Japan are given in the most dynamic and vivid way. However, the children here seem to be barefoot in a snowball fight, which does not quite fit in with his reputation as a particularly realistic artist.
Torii Kiyonaga took over the Torii School from his teacher and passed on his knowledge and innovations to a younger generation of artists. To this day he is still considered the great master of bijin-ga, the depiction of beautiful styled women in exquisite settings - that's what you would say today. The master died in Edo in 1815, but his work still indirectly influenced the Japan-loving circles of the European art avant-garde almost a hundred years later.
At the end of the 19th century the first Japanese woodblock prints came to Europe as cheap packaging material for imports. The artistic avant-garde was inspired, just think of the brightly colored works of Edgar Degas or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which are characterized by radical room layout and immediacy. But the influence was mutual: even the famous ukiyo-e artist Torii Kiyonaga had his Japanese beauties perform in front of a landscape that shows a horizon and also perspective in a typically Western manner. The ukiyo-e movement wanted to celebrate the fleeting life and pleasures of the day in the sense of a "carpe diem!
Torii Kiyonaga was one of the great masters of his craft. He studied with his stepfather Torii Kiyomitsu and created expressive images of actors of the Kabuki theatre with their mask-like distorted, heavily made-up faces. But unlike his teacher, he mainly showed the everyday pleasures of the upper middle-class society of Tokyo, then Edo, and other up-and-coming Japanese cities. He was born in Edo in 1752 as the son of a bookseller. Kiyonaga did not belong to the better society he wanted to portray, but he was far more talented than the natural son of his teacher, so that he was to follow in his teacher's footsteps. In his woodblock prints he presents us the daily tasks of the fine and fine-tuned society. Thus we become witnesses of a bathhouse scene in which clothed, but also naked women seem to be unobserved. A mother dries her baby - a scene of hitherto unknown realism. Are we perhaps the voyeur who seems to be looking through a hidden hatch? So are the women portrayed courtesans putting themselves on display? Well, the man could also be a sansuke who was a common masseur in Japanese bath houses. However, Kiyonaga also has more chaste scenes, for example of women in kimonos who are surprised by a shower and seek shelter under a temple roof or take a boat trip on a lake. Torii Kiyonaga also created a picture cycle over the twelve months, which shows us a lot about the Japanese society of the time and its refined customs. But playing children can be found all over the world, and these here from Japan are given in the most dynamic and vivid way. However, the children here seem to be barefoot in a snowball fight, which does not quite fit in with his reputation as a particularly realistic artist.
Torii Kiyonaga took over the Torii School from his teacher and passed on his knowledge and innovations to a younger generation of artists. To this day he is still considered the great master of bijin-ga, the depiction of beautiful styled women in exquisite settings - that's what you would say today. The master died in Edo in 1815, but his work still indirectly influenced the Japan-loving circles of the European art avant-garde almost a hundred years later.
_from_the_series_Eight_Fashi_-_(MeisterDrucke-1281735).jpg "A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm, from the series \"Eight Fashionable Scenes of the Parlor\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Brothel Client with Courtesan by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_circa_1785_T_-_(MeisterDrucke-1025148).jpg "Women in a Public Bath. Japanese Print by Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815), Circa 1785 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1290227).jpg "Enoshima, from the series \"Mount Fuji in the Four Seasons\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_s_-_(MeisterDrucke-1278564).jpg "A Mirror on a Stand Suggesting the Autumnal Moon, from the Series")
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.jpg "Public bathhouse, 1780 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "A Woman and Two Maids, from the series")
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.jpg "Cutting the Toenails, the Toilet after the Bath by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "A Party of Merrymakers in a Tea-house at Shinagawa, ca. 1783 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1362046).jpg "Geisha with Closed Eyes by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V and his attendant, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Mother Watching Her Son Sleeping under a Mosquito Net by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_by_Torii_Kiyonaga_-_(MeisterDrucke-980136).jpg "Women")
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.jpg "Pictures of Ten Styles Jittaiga Fuzoku: A Young Woman with a Dog by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Geisha of the Tachibana Street by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actors Sujuro III as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Nakamura Riko as Kiyotaki, Yamashita Mangiku as Masa by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_A_Collection_of_Con_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272132).jpg "Flowers of the Doteshita District, from the series")
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.jpg "The Third Princess Onna San no Miya, ca. 1781-89 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Dancers of Tachibana Street, 1742-1815 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Mosquito Net (from the series A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Brine Maidens of Suma Shiokumi, Suma, 1783 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Onami and Menami, from the series")
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.jpg "Sumida River Holiday by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Cherry blossom viewing at Mount Asuka by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Enjoying the Evening Cool at Nakasu by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_illustrated_book_Color_-_(MeisterDrucke-1297070).jpg "The First Garments of the New Year, from the illustrated book \"Colors of the Triple Dawn\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Flowers_of_N_-_(MeisterDrucke-1299074).jpg "Two Geisha Struggling for a Letter, from the series \"Flowers of Nakasu\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV with his family, from an untitled series of four prints showing Actors in private life by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Women on Matsuchi Hill Edo by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Murasaki Shikibu by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III with a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1297740).jpg "Yushima from the series Scenes of Ten Teahouses by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Woman in front of mirror while having her hair combed, ukiyo-e art print by Torii Kiyonaga by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Women on a Summer Evening (A Collection of Humorous Poems) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Kiyonaga Bathhouse Women by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Under Umbrellas in a Shower, from the series")
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.jpg "Four Women in Mitate as Ushiwaka Serenading Joruri-hime by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Miyukinosuke, Segawa Kikunojo III as Hatsune-hime, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ninnaji no Saibei, in the Joruri")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-984584).jpg "Ashinoyu by Torii Kiyonaga")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-225897).jpg "Entertainers of Tachibana-cho, 1782 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Morning of Iris, from the series \"Five Festivals in the Pleasure Quarters\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Girls on the Seashore by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Wakakusa of the Chojiya with Her Attendants Asano and Midori, from the series")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Courtesan Nioteru of the Ogiya, with Her Two Attendants Namiji and Ao by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro, Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Oiso no Tora, Azuma Tozo III as Miura Katagai, and Otani Tokuji I as Danzaburo, in the joruri")
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.jpg "A Girl and Four Servants, from the Series")
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_from_the_illustrated_book_Colors_of_th_-_(MeisterDrucke-1275151).jpg "The First Day of Business (Akinai hajime), from the Illustrated Book \"Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1303374).jpg "The Fourth Month, from the series \"Twelve Months in the South\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1290066).jpg "Woman After a Bath, from \"Comparison of Alluring Beauties\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Wakakusa of the Chojiya Brothel, and Attendants Asano and Midori by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Ichikawa Danjuro V and His Family by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_illustrated_book_Colors_-_(MeisterDrucke-1280358).jpg "The First Bath of the New Year, from the illustrated book")
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_from_the_series_Fashionable_Twelve_Seasons_(Furyu_juni_-_(MeisterDrucke-1279428).jpg "The First Month (Mutsuki), from the series \"Fashionable Twelve Seasons\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Women and a Maid, from the series")
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.jpg "Interior Scene, ca. 1788 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "At Joetsu")
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.jpg "The Nakamise Shopping Street, from the series")
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.jpg "Uma no Naishi, from the series")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Toji of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Satoji and Uraji, from the series \"Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "No. 2: Chinese Boys Copying Paintings and Writing Japanese, from the series")
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.jpg "Theatrical Scene, with Musicians by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Brine Maidens of Suma, from the Series")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1305232).jpg "Three Women (from the series A Brief Collection of Japanese Beauties) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Enmei Jizo by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Fishmonger by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Daughters of a Bannerman with a Serving Woman and a Young Man by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Ninth Month, from the series Twelve Months in the South by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Actors Representing the Feat of Asahina Breaking the Armor of Soga no Goro, from the series")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1277427).jpg "Treasured Admonitions to Young Women (Jijo hokun onna Imagawa) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I and Azuma Tozo, from an Untitled Series of Prints Showing Actors in Private Life by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Picnic in a Daimyo")
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.jpg "Visiting Komachi by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Young Boy Wearing Hakama for the First Time, from the series")
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.jpg "The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I in the Role of Satsuma Kushi no Gengobyoye by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Senzan of Chojiya Strolling with her Kamuro Yasono and Yasoji and Two Shinzo, 1786 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1291039).jpg "Gyokkashi Eimo before Executing Calligraphy by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Two Geisha on a Balcony by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Beauties_Illustrating_the_Four_Social_Classes_-_(MeisterDrucke-1277969).jpg "The Samurai (Shi) from the Series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1271131).jpg "The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Shizuka Gozen (?) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "High-Ranking Samurai Girl with Four Attendants by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Yumoto, from the series \"Seven Famous Hot Springs of Hakone\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Ichikawa Danjuro Fifth as Kyo no Jiro in Disguise as Dekuroku byoe the Street Puppet-show by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Yoshino and Tatsuta, from the series \"Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)\" by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Boating Party on the Sumida River by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Women by an Iris Pond, 1785 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Four Court Ladies Listening to Yoshitsune")
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.jpg "The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Munesada, Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Sumizome, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Sekibei, in the play \"Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To,\" performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1784 by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Entertainers of the Tachibana, from the Series A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Entertainment on a Balcony by the Water at Nakasu, from the series, A Collection of Beautiful Modern Women of the Pleasure Quarters by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Actors in a Shosa Combination of Acting and Dancing Performance by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Boating Party on the Sumida River by Torii Kiyonaga")
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 (see also 114572) - (MeisterDrucke-50204).jpg "Women of the Gay Quarters, Left Hand Panel of a Diptych by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Visiting the Shrine of Enmei Jizo, from the series")
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.jpg "A Man with a Boy and a Geisha Visiting the Kinryusan Temple by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_from_the_series_Eight_Scene_-_(MeisterDrucke-1282262).jpg "A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm from the series Eight Scenes of the Parlor by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "Nippori Keinai Ebisu-Daikoku by Torii Kiyonaga")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1293064).jpg "The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Sansho Dayu by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "The Eighth Month (from the series Fashionable Presentations of the Twelve Months) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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.jpg "A Lady with Three Servants, from the series")
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_from_the_series_Beauties_Illustrating_the_Four_Social_Classes_(A_-_(MeisterDrucke-1280065).jpg "The Farmer (No) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho) by Torii Kiyonaga")
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