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(3) Torii Kiyotada I
( fl Edo [now Tokyo], c. 1720–50). Woodblock print designer, possibly a pupil of (1) Kiyonobu I. Only a few of his works have survived, including urushie (‘lacquer pictures’) and benizurie (‘pink-printed pictures’; two-colour prints) of actors ( yakusha) and beautiful women (bijin), which have strong similarities with prints by Kiyonobu I and his contemporary OKUMURA MASANOBU. Masanobu is usually credited with Japan’s first ukie (‘floating pictures’; perspective prints), but Kiyotada’s own ukie, which may be earlier than Masanobu’s, make skilful use of vanishing perspective in the depiction of theatre interiors and genre scenes such as Yoshiwara omon no zu (‘The Yoshiwara grand gate’).
Part of the Torii family
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