Chôbunsai Eishi
Japanese, 1756–1829
Eishi was born into a high-ranking samurai family and studied painting with the Kanō master Kanō Eisen’in, serving for a time as a painter to the shogun Tokugawa Ieharu. He then turned to ukiyo-e, and in the 1790s designed elegant pictures of tall, graceful courtesans and aristocratic women, often in multi-sheet compositions. Around 1800 he gave up woodblock design to concentrate on painting.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1792–1805
- Mostly
- Movement
- Ukiyo-eJapanese woodblock prints of the floating world: actors, courtesans, landscapes and the sea.
