Artist

Torii Kiyonobu II

Portrait of Torii Kiyonobu II
Portrait of Torii Kiyonobu II

Japanese, 1702–1752

Torii Kiyonobu II was a Japanese Baroque artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Torii Kiyonobu II (Japanese: 二代目 鳥居 清信 Nidaime Torii Kiyonobu; active 1725–1760) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He headed the Torii artistic school from possibly as early as 1725, when its founder Torii Kiyonobu I retired. Kiyonobu II was a prolific designer of actor prints, principally in the narrow hosoban format, of which he produced at least 300 examples for about 20 different publishers.

He and Torii Kiyomasu II were the main Torii artists of their time and have been rumoured to be the same person. Kiyonobu II's last known work is an actor print dated to 1760.

Works by Torii Kiyonobu II

Collections represented

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