Torii (surname)

Torii (written : 鳥居) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Chiho Torii (born 1970), Japanese former volleyball player *

Hirofumi Torii is a Japanese figure skater. He placed 22nd at the 2007 World Junior Championships and won a bronze medal at an ISU Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a s ...

(born 1988), Japanese figure skater *

Keiko Torii is a Japanese plant scientist and academic teaching at the University of Texas at Austin as of September 2019. Career Torii researches stem cell maintenance and the cell-to-cell communication required to correctly pattern tissue during develop ...

, Japanese plant scientist *

Torii Kiyohiro Torii Kiyohiro (, d. ) was a Japanese artist of the Torii school of ukiyo-e. Kiyohiro's date of birth is unknown, while ''Ukiyo-e Ruikō'' lists his death date as 1776. No other evidence of those dates are known. Kiyohiro's personal name was ...

(died c. 1776), Japanese artist *

Torii Kiyomasu was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Torii school, in the genre of ''ukiyo-e''. Like the other Torii artists, his primary focus was on Kabuki billboards, advertisements, actor prints, and other related material. Many scholars believe Kiy ...

(fl. 1690s – 1720s), Japanese painter and printmaker *

Torii Kiyomasu II was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' painter and woodblock printmaker of the Torii school, a specialist, like the rest of the Torii artists, in billboards and other images for the promotion of the kabuki theatres. Scholars are unsure as to Kiyomasu II's ...

(c. 1720 - 1750), Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker *

Torii Kiyomitsu was a painter and printmaker of the Torii school of Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' art; the son of Torii Kiyonobu II or Torii Kiyomasu II, he was the third head of the school, and was originally called Kamejirō before taking the ''art-name, gō'' Kiyo ...

(1735 – 1785), Japanese painter and printmaker *

Torii Kiyomoto Torii Kiyomoto ( ja, 鳥居清元; 1645–1702) was a kabuki actor from Osaka and painter of billboards and other kabuki advertisements; the founder of the Torii school of artists, he painted in an early form of what came to be known as the ukiyo ...

(1645 - 1702), Japanese actor *

Torii Kiyonaga Torii Kiyonaga ( ja, 鳥居清長; 1752 – June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller, from Motozaimokuchō Itchōme in Edo, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as a ...

(1752 – 1815), Japanese artist *

Torii Kiyonobu I Torii Kiyonobu I ( ja, 鳥居清信; – 22 August 1729) was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, who is renowned for his work on kabuki signboards and related materials. Along with his father Torii Kiyomoto, ...

(c. 1664 – 1729), Japanese painter and printmaker *

Torii Kiyonobu II Torii Kiyonobu II ( ja, 二代目鳥居清信 ''Nidaime Torii Kiyonobu''; active 1725–1760) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He headed the Torii artistic school from possibly as early as 1725, when its founder Torii Kiyonobu I reti ...

(active 1725 - 1760), Japanese ukiyo-e artist *

Torii Kiyotsune Torii Kiyotsune (, ) was a Japanese artist of the Torii school of ukiyo-e art. Kiyotsune's birth and death dates are unknown; his personal name was Daijirō, and is believed to have been son of the publisher Nakajimaya Isaemon (). Kiyotsune' ...

(fl. mid-18th century), Japanese artist * Torii Kotondo (1900 – 1976), Japanese artist * Mitsuko Torii (born 1943), female Japanese high jump athlete *

Torii Mototada was a Japanese Samurai and Daimyo of the Sengoku period through late Azuchi–Momoyama period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Torii died at the siege of Fushimi where his garrison was greatly outnumbered and destroyed by the army of Ishida Mitsun ...

(1539 – 1600), Japanese samurai, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu *

Torii Naritsugu was the son of Torii Mototada. He was lord of Yamura fief in Kai province (worth 35,000 ''koku''), but was dispossessed in 1632 and banished to his nephew Torii Tadatsune's domain in Yamagata Domain, Yamagata. Daimyo Year of death unknown Yea ...

(1570 - 1631), Japanese lord and son of Torii Mototada *

Torii Ryūzō Ryuzo Torii (鳥居龍藏; May 4, 1870 – January 14, 1953) was a Japanese anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist, and folklorist. Torii traveled across East Asia and South America for his research. He is known for his anthropological resear ...

(1870 – 1953), Japanese anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist and folklorist *

Torii Suneemon was an ashigaru (low class footman) who served the Okudaira family, retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He became famous for his bravery and incredible exploit at the siege of Nagashino. He was a retainer of Okudaira Sadamasa and member of the Naga ...

(1540 – 1575), Japanese samurai and ashigaru *

Torii Tadafumi Viscount was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who served as daimyō of the Mibu Domain in Shimotsuke Province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Tochigi Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''SHim ...

(1847 – 1914), Japanese samurai and daimyō *

Torii Tadaharu was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period who ruled the Takatō Domain in Shinano Province (modern-day Nagano Prefecture). Tadaharu was the 3rd son of Torii Tadamasa, the lord of the Yamagata Domain. As his father died before a successo ...

(1624 – 1663), Japanese daimyō *

Torii Tadamasa was a Japanese Samurai and Daimyo of the Edo period, who served Tokugawa Shogunate. He was a son of Torii Mototada, a retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1603, following the Battle of Sekigahara, he become the first lord (''daimyō'') of Iwakitaira ...

(1567 – 1628), Japanese daimyō * Torii Tadanori (1646 – 1689), Japanese daimyō * Torii Tadateru (1665 – 1716), Japanese daimyō *

Torii Tadatsune was the son of the ''daimyō'' Torii Tadamasa; his fief reverted to the control of the shogunate , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the ...

(1604 – 1636), Japanese daimyō and son of Torii Tadamasa *

Torii Tadayoshi was a Japanese samurai of the mid-Sengoku period. Longtime retainer of Matsudaira Hirotada and later, his son Tokugawa Ieyasu. When Ieyasu was sent to Sunpu Castle to be a hostage to the Imagawa clan, Tadayoshi served alongside Matsudaira Shigeyos ...

(died 1571), Japanese samurai * Tokutoshi Torii (born 1947), Japanese architect *

Tomoo Torii (born May 20, 1973) is a Japanese judoka. He won Asian silver medal in the half-lightweight division in 1996 Asian Judo Championships. In November 2012 Torii took 5th in the World Sambo Championships The World Sambo Championships are t ...

(born 1973), Japanese judoka * Yoshimasa Torii (born 1942), male Japanese pole vault athlete {{surname Japanese-language surnames