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Your galleryFirst Meeting (Miai), from the series "Twelve Stages of Matrimony (Konrei juni shiki)"
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First Meeting (Miai), from the series "Twelve Stages of Matrimony (Konrei juni shiki)", c. 1775. Color woodblock print; koban.
Color woodblock print; koban · 21.7 × 15.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- First Meeting (Miai), from the series "Twelve Stages of Matrimony (Konrei juni shiki)"
- Artist
- Torii Kiyonaga Japanese, 1752-1815
- Date
- c. 1775
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; koban
- Dimensions
- 21.7 × 15.7 cm (8 9/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.