About the artist
Kiyomine Torii was a painter and printmaker in the early 19th century. Born in Edo, Kiyomine Torii (1787-1868), the grandson of Kiyomitsu Torii I (1735-1785), studied under Kiyonaga Torii (1752-1815) from 1795. In his youthful years, as Kiyomine, his ukiyo-e artworks, mainly bijin-ga or images of courtesans, became well known.
Following Kiyonaga's demise in 1815, he assumed the Torii school's fifth-generation leadership as Kiyomitsu II and subsequently stopped producing single-sheet prints.