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(8) Torii Kiyonaga [Seki Ichibei]
(b Edo [now Tokyo], 1752; d Edo, 1815). Woodblock print designer, painter and book illustrator, pupil of (6) Kiyomitsu I. He was the son of the bookseller Shirakoya Ichibei. He grew up in one of Edo’s liveliest areas, with the Ichimuraza and Nakamuraza kabuki theatres close by. Around 1765 he became a student of (6) Kiyomitsu I, and his first work may have been the hosoban (narrow-format; c. 300*140 mm) benizurie (‘pink-printed pictures’; two-colour prints) Nisei Segawa Kikunojo fun suru Shizuka (‘The actor Segawa Kikunojo as Shizuka’, 1767; Hirano). However, no further prints by Kiyonaga are known until the hosoban benizurie Nisei Yamashita Kinsaku no Tsukisaya to yonsei Iwai Hanshiro no Soga no Goro (‘The actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tsukisaya and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Soga no Goro’, 1770; Mizoguchi), which marked the beginning of a steady production of yakushae (‘pictures of actors’) in the Torii school style.
Part of the Torii family
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