Torii Kotondo
| Torii Kotondo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 November 1900 |
| Died | 13 July 1976 |
| Movement | Shin-hanga |
Torii Kotondo (鳥居 言人, 21 November 1900 – 13 July 1976) or Torii Kiyotada V (五代目 鳥居 清忠) was a Japanese artist of the Torii school of ukiyo-e artists.
Life and career
Kotondo was born Saitō Akira (斎藤 信) in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. Torii Kiyotada IV, the seventh head of the Torii school of ukiyo-e artists, adopted Kotondo at age 15 and trained him in the school's specialty producing portraits of kabuki actors. Kotondo studied painting under the yamato-e painter Kobori Tomone from 1914 and under Kiyokata Kaburagi from 1918. Most of Kotondo's woodblock prints date from 1927 to 1933.[1]
Authorities considered Kotondo's print Morning Hair of 1930 provocative and banned it after seventy of its hundred copies had sold and had the remaining thirty destroyed.[2] When Kiyotada died in 1941 Kotondo became the eighth head of the school and took the name Kiyotada V.[1]
Kotondo lectured at Nihon University in Tokyo from 1966 to 1972.[1] Collectors did not place high value on Kotondo's prints while he was alive; the prints have since appreciated in collectability and fetch prices comparable to those of the great masters.[3]
- Works by Torii Kotondo
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References
- 1 2 3 Merritt & Yamada 1995, p. 155.
- ↑ Harris 2011, p. 85.
- ↑ Harris 2011, p. 78.
Works cited
- Harris, Frederick (2011). Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-4-8053-1098-4.
- Merritt, Helen; Yamada, Nanako (1995). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1732-9.
External links
- Torii Kotondo at ukiyo-e.org