↓Certification from 浮世絵技術保存協会、越前和紙 山口荘松、遺珠刊行会
1900-1976
Torii KOTONDO (Torii Kiyotada 5t generation, 5代目 鳥居清忠)
Kotondo was born in Tokyo as Saito Akira, and adopted at the age of fifteen by Torii Kiyotada(1875-1941), fouth generation to use the name Kiyotada and seventh to use that of Torii, an artist of aline of painters and designers for the Tokyo Kabuki Theatre.
He studied native-style painting(Nihonga) notably from 1919 under the influential Kaburaki Kiyokata (鏑木清方)(1878-1973) who also taught Shinsui,Kasamatu and Hasui.
Apart from designs for Kabuki magazine "Engei gaho" and Kabuki scenery, programmes and posters, he painted" bijinga"(portraits of beautiful women).
His prints appealed strongly to Westerners and were shown in both Toledo Exhibitions(1930 and 1936)
On his father's death in 1941 he became Torii Ⅷ and Kiyotada Ⅴ.
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