Two Actors in a Drama
Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active c. 1704–18)
About 1715
- Medium
- Woodblock print; sumizuri-e, ōban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 28.8 × 42.6 cm (11 5/16 × 16 3/4 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
About this work
The folds of the seated actor’s robe are suggested by characters meaning “role in disguise.”
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
