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The Actor Ichimura Takenojo VIII in the Role of a Puppeteer, showing Puppets to a Courtesan Wall Art
ART BY: Torii Kiyomasu I
The Actor Ichimura Takenojo VIII in the Role of a Puppeteer, showing Puppets to a Courtesan Wall Art
ART BY: Torii Kiyomasu I
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The Actor Ichimura Takenojo VIII in the Role of a Puppeteer, showing Puppets to a Courtesan is a monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper by Torii Kiyomasu I (1690–1720), dated 1725. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3828 × 2606 px (2.7 MB). It is filed under Prints, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 43 works by Torii Kiyomasu I, a Japanese artist.
Torii Kiyomasu was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Torii school, in the genre of ukiyo-e. Like the other Torii artists, his primary focus was on Kabuki billboards, advertisements, actor prints, and other related material.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Torii Kiyomasu I →
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