Japan: The actor Nakamura Takesaburo playing an itinerant female tea vendor. A pair of panniers is slung across his shoulders with the paraphernalia for tea making including, in the lower sections, a brazier and water jug. Torii Kiyomasu I, c. 1716

Torii Kiyomasu (鳥居 清倍, c. 1690s - 1720s) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Torii school, in the genre of ukiyo-e. Like the other Torii artists, his primary focus was on Kabuki billboards, advertisements, actor prints, and other related material.

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THE WAY OF TEA