Reading a Letter in Front of a Screen, from an untitled series of 12 prints

Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)

c. 1710

Medium

Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e

Classification

Print

Dimensions

35.6 × 25.4 cm (14 × 10 in.)

Culture

Japan

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ukiyo-e: pictures of the floating world
• Prints
• Everyday life
• 1700s
• Japan
• Brown