Scene at Daifukuya (Daifukuya no dan) from the series Go Taihei Ki Shiraishi Banashi

Scene at Daifukuya (Daifukuya no dan), from the joruri-derived series Go Taihei Ki Shiraishi Banashi, is a Torii Kiyonaga print in the Art Institute of Chicago collection documented through ukiyo-e.org. The play—commonly known by its short title Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi—was a popular puppet drama later adapted to kabuki, recounting the revenge of the Shiraishi sisters against the corrupt official Shiga Daishichi. The Daifukuya episode shows the elder sister Miyagino, who has been sold into prostitution at the Daifukuya brothel, being reunited with her country-bred younger sister Shinobu, who has come to Edo searching for her. Kiyonaga, as head of the Torii school after 1785, was the heir to a workshop that supplied the kabuki theaters with billboards and actor prints; this design draws directly on that theatrical heritage while transforming it into the elegant figural mode of Edo bijin-ga. The composition aligns the principal women across the picture plane in his characteristic tall, broad-shouldered proportions, with the brothel interior reduced to a few essential furnishings so that costume and gesture carry the narrative. Kiyonaga's handling preserves the emotional charge of recognition between the sisters while restraining the gestures to the calm, idealized dignity that defined his mature bijin-ga. The print exemplifies how Kiyonaga reframed celebrated theatrical scenes for an audience that valued both their dramatic content and their refined depiction of women's costume, making it a representative example of the Torii school's late-eighteenth-century output.