Kanjo: A Court Lady, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1790, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm), Prints, Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815), Kiyonaga's placement of women in outdoor settings paved the way for the landscape prints of the next generation. Here, the soft treatment of a willow tree beside a stream, reminiscent of both Heian poetry and Chinese brush painting, serves as a foil for the sharp, angular line of the figure
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