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Torii Kiyonaga
Torii Kiyonaga
Enjoying the Cool Air at Nakasu (Sako suzumi) from the series A Contest of Fashionable Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)
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Season-opening Program (Kaomise banzuke) for the Nakamura Theater
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An Outing in Spring from the series Current Manners in Eastern Brocade (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)
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Young Man Older Man and Woman Dressed as Komuso
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Puppet Player Holding a Female Puppet in Traveling Costume
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Courtesans Inside and Outside a Mosquito Net
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Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Yoshimine no Munesada Nakamura Nakazo I as Sekibei actually Otomo no Kuronushi and Segawa Kikunojo III as Sumizome
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The Echigoya on New Years Day
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Under Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi) from the series Mount Fuji in the Four Seasons (Shiki no Fuji)
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A Modern Version of the Story of Ushiwakamaru Serenading Joruri-hime
Torii Kiyonaga (Torii Kiyonaga, Horeki 2nd year <1752> --Culture 12th May 21st <1815 June 28th>) is an ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period. The fourth generation of the Torii school. A representative painter of the Torii school.
He was active mainly in the Tenmei period between Harunobu Suzuki and Utamaro Kitagawa, and is one of the six major ukiyo-e artists along with Sharaku, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. In particular, it is a magnificent eight-headed beauty painting, which is highly regarded worldwide today.
A student of Torii Kiyomitsu. A child of Ichibei Sekiguchi, a bookstore Shirokoya in Edo Honbashi Town (now Nihonbashi). Mr. Seki. The popular name is Ichibei (Shinsuke in one theory). The shop name is Shirokoya. It was also called "Kiyocho Shinba" because of where he lived.
Debuted in 1767 with a fine-sized Benizuri-e. From the age of 19, he called himself Kiyonaga (the first issue is called Chobei), and Yasunaga (1772-1781) left about 110 fine-sized actors in the year. From around 7-8 (1778-1779), the Torii school style gradually disappeared, and under the influence of the caricature actors such as Katsukawa Shunsho, which was popular at that time, Benizuri-e changed to fine-sized nishiki-e. It changes, but the production of actor pictures is scarce. Instead, the production of medium format bijin-ga and kibyoshi illustrations will increase. The yellow cover began to be drawn in Anei 4 (1775), and has been illustrated in more than 120 works until Tenmei 2 (1782). It was the center of drawing during this period.