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Kiyomitsu

1735–1785

Given name: Kamejirō. Art surname: Torii.

Kiyomitsu, born 1735, became the third titular head of the Torii School. Born in Naniwachō presumably as the second son of Kiyomasu II, Kiyomitsu studied under his father. He married at age 18 and had two children, a boy who died at the age of about 16 and a girl.

His earliest known works are the illustrated books “Kagekiyo from Hyūga Province” (Hyūga Kagekiyo) and “Tale of the Love Tomb” (Koizuka monogatari), dating from 1746. In the late 1750s, he was very active in single sheet actor prints, many of them benizuri-e (two-color-printing) and abuna-e (indecent pictures, capturing partially nude women).

Until the late 1760s, he continued to be the most active and prolific designer of actor prints. His designs appeared as “brocade pictures” (nishiki-e) until the late 1770s and he also produced pillar prints (hashira-e), playbills and illustrations for novels as well as a few warrior prints. Kiyomitsu’s actor prints were published until at least 1781.

Among his many students was Kiyonaga who then succeeded him as head of the Torii School. After Kiyomitsu passed away on the third day of the forth month in 1785 he was buried at Hōjōji, Asakusa.

1761 The actor Ichimura Kamezō I as Kyō no Jirō in the play Edomurasaki kongen Soga, Ichimura Theater, V/1761. Hosoban benizuri-e. Publisher: Yamashiroya. Library of Congress. Mutō 2005, no. 923.

1760s Kumagai Jirō Naozane and Mukan Tayū Atsumori. Ōban benizuri-e. Publisher: Enamiya. Asian Art Museum, National Museums in Berlin.

1760s Young lady making a snowball. Hosoban benizuri-e. Publisher: Maruya Kuzaemon. Library of Congress.

1766 The actors Ichikawa Yaozō II as Matano Gorō and Nakamura Sukegorō I as Mimishirō in an unidentified play. Hosoban benizuri-e. Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi. Collection Peter Rieder. Mutō 2005, no. 1095.

1763 The actors Onoe Kikugorō I as Kudō Suketsune and Bandō Aizō as Inubōmaru in the play Fūjibumi sakae Soga, Ichimura Theater, II/1763. Hosoban benizuri-e. Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands. Mutō 2005, no. 1016.

1760s The actor Sakata Hangorō II as Kizu Kansuke in an unidentified play. Hosoban benizuri-e. Publisher: Okumuraya. Collection Peter Rieder. Unlisted in Mutō 2005.