Sunday, May 4, 2025

 Torii Kiyomitsu
(1735 - 1785)
 

Torii Kiyomitsu was a painter and printmaker of the Torii school of Japanese ukiyo-e art; the son of Torii Kiyonobu II or Torii Kiyomasu II, he was the third head of the school, and was originally called Kamejirō before taking the gō Kiyomitsu. Dividing his work between actor prints and bijinga (pictures of beautiful women), he primarily used the benizuri-e technique prolific at the time, which involved using one or two colors of ink on the woodblocks rather than hand-coloring; full-color prints would be introduced later in Kiyomitsu's career, in 1765.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii_Kiyomitsu

Three Tabletop Games
ca. 1751-1764
Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints)
43.5 x 31 cm
Tobacco and Salt Museum, Sumida City, Japan

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