Torii Kiyonobu

Torii Kiyonobu

▪ Japanese painter
also called  Shōbei  
born 1664, Ōsaka
died , Aug, 22, 1729, Edo [Tokyo]
 Japanese painter who founded the Torii school, the only Ukiyo-e school to have survived to this day. (Ukiyo-e is a popular style of painting and woodblock printing utilizing colour and based on themes of the “floating world.”)

      Torii learned painting from his actor-painter father, Kiyomoto, who once played female roles in Ōsaka. After the family moved to Edo (now Tokyo) in 1687, Torii became a signboard painter for the Kabuki theatre. He also illustrated books in the Ukiyo-e style; but with his Kabuki connections, he started designing numerous portraits of actors to be reproduced as prints. The close association of the Torii family with the Kabuki theatre also was the key to the survival of the Torii school.

      Torii's free and powerful style, nicknamed hyotan mimizugaki (“the gourd-earthworm style”) because of its strong, tapering brush strokes, became popular because it reflected the general mood of the aragoto (“rough style”) Kabuki plays of the period. He also excelled in drawing portraits of the beauties of his time in a realistic yet graceful style. Shōgi gachō (“Picture Album of Courtesans”) and the two-volume Fūryū shihō byōbu (“Portraits of Famous Actors”), both printed in 1700, are his representative works.

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