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Torii.
Name used by members of a school of Japanese woodblock print designers and book illustrators, active from the Edo period (1600–1868) to the present day. They specialized in the ukiyoe (‘pictures of the floating world’) genre (see JAPAN, §IX, 3(iii)). For most of the 18th century the Torii school monopolized the illustrations for the kabuki theatre in Edo (now Tokyo). In 1687 Torii Kiyomoto (1645–1702), a painter of theatrical signboards (kanban’e; see JAPAN, §XV) and a kabuki actor playing female roles (onnagata), moved from Osaka to Edo, where his son (1) Kiyonobu I established the Torii studio. Kiyonobu I was succeeded by (4) Kiyomasu II, (6) Kiyomitsu I, (8) Kiyonaga and Kiyomitsu II (1788–1868). The following members have entries:
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