Torii Kiyotsune
Torii • Illustration — The Actor Ichikawa Danzo in a Shibaraku Role, mid-18th century Torii Kiyotsune (鳥居 清経, mid-18th century) was a Japanese artist of the Torii school of ukiyo-e art. Kiyotsune's birth and death dates are unknown; his personal name was Daijirō, and is believed to have been son of the publisher Nakajimaya Isaemon (中島屋 伊左衛門). Kiyotsune's work appeared from the end of the Hōreki era (1751–1764) to the end of the An'ei era (1772–1781), a time of great productivity from the Torii school.
Torii Kiyotsune
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- painter and ukiyo-e artist.
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- Torii Kiyomitsu.
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Torii • Illustration — The Actor Ichikawa Danzo in a Shibaraku Role, mid-18th century Torii Kiyotsune (鳥居 清経, mid-18th century) was a Japanese artist of the Torii school of ukiyo-e art. Kiyotsune's birth and death dates are unknown; his personal name was Daijirō, and is believed to have been son of the publisher Nakajimaya Isaemon (中島屋 伊左衛門). Kiyotsune's work appeared from the end of the Hōreki era (1751–1764) to the end of the An'ei era (1772–1781), a time of great productivity from the Torii school.
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Kiyotsune produced yakusha-e portraits of kabuki actors with rounded linework in a style established by Kiyonobu II and Kiyomasu II. He also worked extensively in the manner of his teacher Kiyomitsu, from whom he is chiefly distinguished by the expression of weary disdain worn by most of the actors he portrayed, and by the naive, effeminate delicacy of his figures, which often saves his prints from the monotony found in some of Kiyomitsu's work, a delicacy that, in this respect, at times even surpasses that of Harunobu. Although his hand-coloured prints and urushi-e are also known, Kiyotsune is at his best in his beni-e, marked by a piquant line and pattern. His work is held in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the British Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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Mukan no tayū atsumori Abstract/medium: 1 print: woodcut, color; 30 x 13.7 cm.
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1757
Torii Kiyotsune was born on 1 January 1757.
1779
Torii Kiyotsune died on 1 January 1779.
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- 1.Segawa Kikunojo II (1741-1773) as Oshichi & Bando Hikosaburo II (1741-1768) as Kichisaburo possibly in Yaoya Oshichi performed at Nakamura-za. collections.rom.on.ca.
- 2.Two Kabuki Actors as Lovers. www.dia.org.
- 3.illustrated book; print British Museum. The British Museum.
- 4.Harvard. From the Harvard Art Museums' collections TWO ACTORS COMPARING PEONIES. harvardartmuseums.org.
- 5.Brooklyn Museum. www.brooklynmuseum.org.
- 6.Metropolitan Museum of Art. Torii Kiyotsune The Actor Iwai Hanshirō IV as Sakura Hime, the Cherry Princess Japan Edo period (1615 1868). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 7.Scene from a Kabuki Play: Wrestling LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org.
- 8.Ōtani Hiroji in the role of Yushima no Miyoshi. Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection.
- 9.Nakamura Riko as Shigenoi (Shigenoi Nakamura Riko) - Torii Kiyotsune. FAMSF Search the Collections. 2015-05-08.
- 10.Arashi Sangorō II As Itō Kurō Honolulu Museum of Art. honolulumuseum.org.
- 11.Exchange: Ichikawa Benzō I as Shintokumaru. exchange.umma.umich.edu.
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Auckland Art Gallery, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and National Museum of World Cultures
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