Women Watching a Girl Dance on Shells (From the series Fashionable Presentations of Three Horses), 1784
Artist in the Global Art Registry
Torii Kiyonaga
1752–1815 · Japanese
- Born
- 1752 · Edo
- Died
- 1815 · Edo
197 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Torii Kiyonaga was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school, originally known as Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller. He became head of the group after the death of his adoptive father and teacher Torii Kiyomitsu.
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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. Although not biologically related to the Torii family, he became head of the group after the death of his adoptive father and teacher Torii Kiyomitsu. The master Kiyomitsu died in 1785; since his son died young, and Kiyotsune, Kiyonaga's senior, was a less promising artist, Kiyonaga was the obvious choice to succeed Kiyomitsu to leadership of the Torii school. However, he delayed this for two years, likely devoting time to his bijin-ga and realizing the immense responsibility that would fall on his shoulders once he took over the school. Thus, in 1787, he began organizing the production of kabuki signboards and the like, which the school held a near monopoly on. He also began to train Kiyomitsu's grandson, Torii Kiyomine, who was to succeed him.
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Selected registered works by Torii Kiyonaga
Selected from 197 works by Torii Kiyonaga in the Collect24 Registry.
Torii Kiyonaga
Women Watching a Girl Dance on Shells (From the series Fashionable Presentations of Three Horses), 1784
color woodblock print
36.3 × 24.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-201619
Torii Kiyonaga
Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodcut, Print, Woodblock, 1782
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
C24-726530
Torii Kiyonaga
Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodcut, Print, Woodblock, 1775
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
C24-724959
Torii Kiyonaga
Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Print, Woodcut, Woodblock, 1787
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
C24-721990
Torii Kiyonaga
Three Women on a Balcony, ca. 1786
Upper sheet of a vertical diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
37.8 × 25.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-278807
Torii Kiyonaga
Ichikawa Danjuro V and His Family, 1782
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
38.7 × 25.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-270207
Torii Kiyonaga
Gyoku-kashi Eimo Preparing Calligraphy Offerings, ca. 1782
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
38.4 × 26 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-270215
Torii Kiyonaga
The Kabuki Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III and Courtesans, ca. 1783–84
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
37.8 × 25.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-257018
Torii Kiyonaga
The Dance of the Beach Maidens from the series Brocade of the East, ca. 1770
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
38.6 × 24.9 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-255026
Torii Kiyonaga
Enjoying the Evening Cool at Nakasu, ca. 1782–83
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
37.5 × 26.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-256299
Torii Kiyonaga
The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro in the Role of Sayohime Disguised as Hanamasu, 1773
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
28.9 × 13.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-254888
Torii Kiyonaga
Three Geishas of Tachibana Street in Their Room, 1784
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
37.9 × 24.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-253762
Museums and collections
Where works by Torii Kiyonaga are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
116 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
46 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
23 works
- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
Stockholm, Sweden
9 works
- Finnish National Gallery
Helsinki, Finland
2 works
- Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
1 work
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