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Torii Kiyonaga (鳥居清長? 1752 – 28 de junio de 1815) fue un artista japonés del ukiyo-e y pintor de la escuela Torii de pintura japonesa. Su nombre original era Sekiguchi Shinsuke, y fue hijo de un vendedor de libros de Edo.
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese: 鳥居 清長; 1752 – June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller, from Motozaimokuchō Itchōme in Edo, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as an art name.
Torii Kiyonaga Carrying a Lantern Decorated with the Flowers of the Four Seasons (Hirakawa-cho Yamamoto-cho shiki no hana mando) from the series “The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno go-sairei)”, 1780
En 1785, tras la muerte de Kiyomitsu, Matsuya Kameji le propuso a Kiyonaga que realizara los carteles de actores. Tras mucho dudarlo, éste acabó haciéndose con el taller y tomó el nombre de los Torii de la cuarta generación. Desde esta fecha y hasta 1811 publicó unos 120 libros con ilustraciones.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Torii Kiyonaga (born 1752, Sagami Province, Japan—died June 28, 1815, Edo [Tokyo]) was one of the most important Japanese artists of the Ukiyo-e movement (paintings and wood-block prints of the “floating world”). He was the pupil of Torii Kiyomitsu and for a time headed the Torii school.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biography Considered the greatest master of color woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, during the the Tenmei period (1781–1789), Kiyonaga succeeded his teacher Kiyomitsu (c. 1735–1785) as the leader of the Torii school, a line of artists specializing in posters of the popular Kabuki theater, prints, and playbills.
Torii Kiyonaga Japanese. ca. 1784. Not on view. A seated married woman in black kimono, a young woman holding a fan and a maid in apron with saucer in her hand watch two courtesans walk by, hand in hand. A mistress of a teahouse in a blue and white summer yukata accompanies them.
