Torii Kiyomitsu I

Kiyomitsu Torii (Kiyomitsu Torii, 1938-May 24, 2021) is a Japanese female painter, ukiyo-e artist, and stage artist. The 9th generation Torii school owner. Real name Setsuko. The daughter of Kiyotada, the 8th and 5th generation of the Torii school, and the first female ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school. In addition to woodblock prints and traditional Kabuki picture signs of the Torii school, he also works on Kabuki costumes and performing arts, and produces three-dimensional drawings such as stage set drawings.

Born in Tokyo. Born as the daughter of the 8th and 5th generation Torii school Kiyotada (wordsman). He had been helping the family business since he was a child, but his older brother, Motohiro, went on to become a film director, and his father, who refused to destroy the Torii school, taught him how to paint. In high school, he studied oil painting under Kiyonaga Ito, a Western-style painter. After graduating from the Japanese painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts, he worked in the design room and engineering department of the Nissay Theater. Also, learn the Torii school painting method for his father. After his father died in July 1976, he took over his father's painting business and was officially established as a female ukiyo-e artist. Nakamura Utaemon, Onoe Shoroku, Shochiku President Takeomi Nagayama, Muneshige Narasaki, Keizaburo Yamaguchi and others attended the announcement.

The style of painting is said to be "not only Ukiyo-e, but also Bijin-ga, which has a style inherited from his father learned from Kiyokata Kaburagi, and also has a unique taste of Yamato-e."

Received the Avon Art Award in 1986, Shin Hasegawa Award in 1988, the Japan Theater Industry Association Award in 1994, and the 37th Matsuo Performing Arts Award Special Award in 2016. Received the Medal with Yellow Ribbon in 2005.

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