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(7) Torii Kiyohiro [Shichinosuke]
( fl Edo [now Tokyo], 1751–63; d Edo, ?1786). Woodblock print designer, painter and book illustrator. Listed among the members of the Torii studio in 1763, Kiyohiro probably studied under Kiyonobu II ( fl 1725–60), (4) Kiyomasu II or (6) Kiyomitsu I. However, the main influences on his work were (2) Kiyomasu I and ISHIKAWA TOYONOBU. Although a member of the Torii studio, Kiyohiro’s extant prints include more bijinga (‘pictures of beautiful women’) than yakushae (‘pictures of actors’). His single-sheet prints were usually large-format benizurie (‘pink-printed pictures’; two-colour prints). Kiyohiro’s bijinga are better than those of Kiyomasu I, and he was a master of abunae (‘dangerous pictures’; erotic prints). He produced the illustrations for kurohon (‘black books’) and aohon (‘blue books’; books for chidren and the semi-literate), including Ise sangu gorisho (‘The divine grace of Ise Shrine’, 1755; untraced) and Meigetsuhime koiuta monogatari (‘The love-poem tale of Princess Full Moon’, 1758; Tokyo, Orient. Lib.). He also painted nikuhistuga (‘original paintings’; polychrome paintings; see JAPAN, §VI, 4(iv)(a)) in the style of SUZUKI HARUNOBU.
Part of the Torii family
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