Chats on Japanese Prints

by Arthur Davison Ficke

Followers of the Torii School.

Here may be mentioned those artists in whom the once-great Torii School came to its inglorious end.

Kiyomine, the fifth head of the school, sometimes signed himself Kiyomitsu; his work is easily distinguishable from that of the first Kiyomitsu. He studied under Kiyonaga, and later adopted a style somewhat like that of Toyokuni. His work is graceful, but not distinguished. Prints by him are rather rare. He died in 1868.

Kiyofusa, who died as late as 1892, was the sixth Torii. He also called himself Kiyomitsu III and Kiyosada II. Other late members of this school were: Kiyomoto II, Kiyoyasu, Kiyotada II, Kiyotada III, Kiyosada I.