Woodblock print (Ishukankokai Commemorative Reprint) – Torii Kotondo (Kiyotada V) (1900-1976) – Natsugi 夏妓 (Summer Geisha) – Japan – Heisei period (1989-2019) Block carver: Itou Susumu 伊藤進 Printer: Watansbe Yoshiaki 渡辺義明 This Ukiyo-e drawn by Torii Kiyotada V memo Torii Kotondo (21 November 1900 – 13 July 1976) or Torii Kiyotada V was a Japanese artist of the Torii school of ukiyo-e artists. Kotondo was born Saitō Akira (斎藤 信) in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. Torii Kiyotada IV [ja], 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 [ja] from 1914 and under Kiyokata Kaburagi from 1918. Most of Kotondo’s woodblock prints date from 1927 to 1933.