Axial Commons Image Treasury
Color woodblock print of two women in a Japanese parlor; one kneels beside a round mirror on a stand while the other stands, with open screens and autumn plants.

A Mirror on a Stand Suggesting the Autumnal Moon, Kiyonaga woodblock print

A color woodblock print showing two women in an interior with shoji screens open to a garden. A kneeling woman in patterned robes leans over a round mirror set on a black lacquer stand, while a standing woman in a dark kimono with floral motifs looks down at it. A paper lantern and autumn plants complete the parlor scene.

Artist
Torii Kiyonaga
Date
c. 1777
Medium
Color woodblock print; chuban
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2226 px
Download full size
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1782).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection

More from Japanese Prints

Tiger, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)"Tiger, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)"Fun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Allegory of the Six Poets (Furyu rokkasen)"Fun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Allegory of the Six Poets (Furyu rokkasen)"The Evening Glow of a Lamp (Andon no sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"The Evening Glow of a Lamp (Andon no sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor Yagurashita no Bansho (Evening Bell at Yagurashita), Courtesan and Her Attendant at the Yagurashita Unlicensed Pleaser District in Fukagawa, from the series "Fukagawa Hakkei (Eights Views of Fukagawa)"Yagurashita no Bansho (Evening Bell at Yagurashita), Courtesan and Her Attendant at the YaThe Autumn Moon in the Mirror (Kyodai no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"The Autumn Moon in the Mirror (Kyodai no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the PaThe Warrior Watanabe no Tsuna Fighting the Demon at RashomonThe Warrior Watanabe no Tsuna Fighting the Demon at Rashomon