<div class="description">
<p>This rare, hand-colored print incorporates a technique
called urushi-e, literally "lacquer picture," in which the artist
paints deer glue over areas of black pigment, producing a
lustrous effect reminiscent of lacquer. Metal filings were
sometimes sprinkled onto the pigment for decorative effect.
Kiyonobu’s prints are characteristically hand-colored and
outlined in black.
</p><p>Inspired by a family tradition of painters of Kabuki
posters, Kiyonobu created prints mainly of actors and
</p>
scenes from plays.</div>
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Torii Kiyonobu I</div>
c. early or mid 1730s
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