Torii school
鳥居派
Movement · school · since 1687
The ukiyo-e school that held a monopoly on Kabuki posters and programmes in Edo1. Dates. It begins in 1687, when its founder Torii Kiyomoto (1645–1702), an actor of female roles, moved from Osaka to Edo and was asked to design a poster for a Kabuki theatre; Kiyonobu I and Kiyomasu I developed its vigorous actor prints, and Torii Kiyonaga (1752–1815) led it from 17852. Mason follows it to the end of the 18th century; its end is left open here. Mason 2005, pp. 280–281. ↩ Ebd., pp. 280–285. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.