Kiyonaga Torii

Background

Kiyonaga Torii was born in 1752 in Uraga, Japan.

Career

Kiyonaga Torii is considered one of the great masters of the full-color nishiki-e print and of bijin-ga, images of courtesans and other beautiful women. Like most ukiyo-e artists, however, he also produced a number of prints and paintings depicting Kabuki actors and related subjects, many of them promotional materials for the theaters. He also produced a number of shunga, or erotic images.

Kiyonaga Torii produced a great many bijin-ga prints in the 1780s. He nearly stopped doing art entirely in the early 1790s.

Works

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  • Cooling on Riverside

    1752

  • Bathhouse Women

    1752

  • Snowball Fight

    1787

  • painting

  • painting

  • painting

  • painting

    1915

  • painting

  • painting

  • painting

References

• Torii Kiyonaga: Colour Plates