Chōbunsai Eishi

Chōbunsai Eishi in the archive

Periods & movements

18th Century, 17th Century, 19th Century

Genres

Illustration

Cultures

Japanese

Key works by Chōbunsai Eishi

1. Nanamachi of the Yotsumeya with Attendants Sumano and Akashi (c. 1787)
2. Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages – A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe); Tokiuta of the Chojiya (c. 1793)
3. Ono no Komachi Visiting Kiyomizu Temple, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi) (1788)
4. The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya with her Attendants, from the series 'Edo Purple in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro Edo murasaki)' (c. 1790)
5. Naniwaya Okita and Takashima Ohisa playing a game of ken
6. Women Viewing Cherry Blossoms II (c. 1793)
7. A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase); Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya in Procession (Tamaya Hanamurasaki dochu no zu) (c. 1795)
8. A Parody of the Tales of Ise