# 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._

3 works in the collection.

- [The Poetess Shunzei no Musume, from the series The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-poetess-shunzei-no-musume-from-the-series-the-thirty-six-aic-34973), Chôbunsai Eishi, Edo period (1615–1868), 1801. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Leftmost Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/leftmost-print-from-pleasure-boats-on-the-sumida-river-benea-cma-95400), Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1792. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Women Beside a Stream Chasing Fireflies](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/women-beside-a-stream-chasing-fireflies-cma-101861), Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1796–97. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.