. Chats on Japanese prints. l take upin their order. Toru I .. Kiyonobn I ... (1664-1729) Torii II .. Kiyomasu ... (1679-1763) Torii III ... .. Kiyomitsu - (173S-1785) Torii IV ... .. Kiyonaga ... (1742-1815) Torii V .. Kiyomine ... (1786-1868) Torii VI ... .. Kiyofusa ... (1832-1892) The importance of the school terminated with Ki-yonaga, or at latest with I, the founder of theTorii line, was born in 1664 anddied in 1729. It is said that hewas first a resident of Osaka, andthen of Kyoto; and that he finallycame to Yedo about the beginningof the gay and brilliant GenrokuPerio
. Chats on Japanese prints. l take upin their order. Toru I .. Kiyonobn I ... (1664-1729) Torii II .. Kiyomasu ... (1679-1763) Torii III ... .. Kiyomitsu - (173S-1785) Torii IV ... .. Kiyonaga ... (1742-1815) Torii V .. Kiyomine ... (1786-1868) Torii VI ... .. Kiyofusa ... (1832-1892) The importance of the school terminated with Ki-yonaga, or at latest with I, the founder of theTorii line, was born in 1664 anddied in 1729. It is said that hewas first a resident of Osaka, andthen of Kyoto; and that he finallycame to Yedo about the beginningof the gay and brilliant GenrokuPeriod, 1688-1703. Thus he musthave been in Yedo a few years*7 ^\. before the death of Moronobu in » H 179s. and it is evident that he ^ ^_ studied the Moronobu style. Ki- ^\^S^ yonobus father is variously re- Ipl ported to have been either an actor or a painter of theatricalsign-posters; at any rate hisTonn KIYONOBU. connection with the theatre wasa close one. This circumstancedoubtless determined the line of the sons activity. FIRST PERIOD: THE PRIMITIVES 85 in designing. About 1700 Kiyonobu produced thefirst single-sheet actor-print in black and white this it was only a step to the production oftan-ye, which he probably invented—actor-sheetssimply but brilliantly coloured by the application oforange to certain portions of the picture. In thismanner he issued both hoso-ye (that is, sheets about12 inches high and 6 inches wide) and sheets oflarger size, perhaps the most striking being actor-portraits, sometimes several feet in height, whichenjoyed an immense popularity. By about 1715he had taken up a more delicate kind of hand-colouring known as kurenai-ye, which some writersthink he himself devised. A few years later headopted the urushi-ye technique, increasing thenumber of colours and using lacquer to heightenthe brilliancy of the effect. Kiyonobus subjects comprised a few landscapesof no great interest, and figures of several forte was the representation
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