(b Edo [now Tokyo], 1706; d Edo, 1763). Woodblock print designer and book illustrator, probably the son-in-law of (1) Kiyonobu I. He was the second-generation head of the Torii school. Once incorrectly identified as Kiyonobu II ( fl c. 1725–60), he probably married the eldest daughter of the founder of the school, (1) Kiyonobu I, in 1724. While Kiyomasu’s work is inferior to Kiyonobu I’s, he was a prolific designer and had many students. His extant works include tan’e (‘red lead pictures’; hand-coloured prints), benie (‘red pictures’), urushie (‘lacquer pictures’) and benizurie (‘pink-printed pictures’; two-colour prints) of actors ( yakusha) and beautiful women (bijin). Between 1745 and 1760 he produced many illustrations for kurohon (‘black books’) and aohon (‘blue books’; books intended for children and the semi-literate). His representative works are Furyu urozoku taiji (‘Crusade of the fashionable sightseers’; 1745) and Yakusha meibutsu yatsushi sugata (‘Abbreviated figures of famous actors’; 1757). His students included (7) Kiyohiro, Kiyohide ( fl c. 1760–75), Kiyotsune ( fl c. 1760–80) and his second son, (6) Kiyomitsu I, who became the third-generation head of the Torii school.

Part of the Torii family

• Torii Kiyomasu II (1706-63)
  • Japan, §IX, 3(iii)(a): Prints, c 1600–c 1760
  • Japan, §IX, 3(iii)(a): Prints, c 1600–c 1760
  • Torii
  • Torii: (1) Torii Kiyonobu I
  • Torii: (7) Torii Kiyohiro