Eishi
Japanese artist
DescriptionChōbunsai Eishi was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. Born to a well-off samurai family that was part of the Fujiwara clan, Eishi left his employ with the Shōgun Ieharu to pursue art. His early works were prints were mostly bijin-ga portraits of beautiful women in a style akin to Kiyonaga and Utamaro. Wikipedia
Born: 1756, Japan
Died: 1829, Japan
On view: Metropolitan Museum of Art, MORE
Artworks
Performing Monkey
1800
Standing beauty reading a...
Beauty under Cherry Bl...
1810
鳥文斎栄之画 「青楼美人六花...
1805
Chōbunsai Eishi (鳥文斎 栄之, 1756–1829) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. Born to a well-off .... Views. Read · Edit · View history ...
Tonight's Art Moment is "Beauty Under a Cherry Tree" by Hosoda Eishi. The beauty of the title is a geisha (courtesan), an entertainer skilled at music and dance in a licensed district in a Japanese city. She is wearing high fashion in early 19th-century Japan. Her high chignon, with multiple large hairpins, was popular from 1806 to 1816. Beauties in the urban pleasure districts were commonly seen in the popular pictorial art known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world, scenes of which varied from expensive paintings to more modest and widely disseminated woodblock prints for less discerning clientele. Hosoda Eishi worked in both media. Not on view.
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