Torii Kiyotomo

Virtually nothing is known of the artist Torii Kiyotomo. He is listed by Yoshida as a pupil of Kiyonobu I. At any rate he is an artist in the Torii style whose work has a very special flavor of its own, distinguished by a restrained vigor and gentle mood. Due to the rarity of his work, Kiyotomo’s period of activity cannot be determined with any certainty; his surviving art has yet to be dated or even adequately recorded. The Michener Collection’s documentation of Kiyotomo comes from the period of "urushi-e" in the 1720s and early 1730s.

Research by: Howard A. Link.