Eisen: Woman Lighting a Lamp Woodblock NR
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Japanese Woodblock Print, Showa era printing by S. Watanabe from recarved woodblock
SIZE IN INCHES: oban 10.5 x 15.5 inches
EISEN WAS BORN IN EDO into the Ikeda family, the son of a noted calligrapher. He was apprenticed to Kana Hakkeisai, from whom he took the name Keisai, and after the death of his father he studied under Kikugawa Eizan. His initial works reflected the influence of his mentor, but he soon developed his own style.
He produced a number of surimono (prints that were privately issued), erotic prints, and landscapes, including Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido, which he started and which was completed by Hiroshige. However, his most famous works are the bijin-e (pictures of beautiful women) which portrayed the subjects as more worldly than those depicted by earlier artists, replacing their grace and elegance with a less studied sensuality. He produced many portraits and full-length studies depicting the fashions of the time.
In addition to producing a prolific number of prints, he was a writer, producing biographies of the Forty-seven Ronin and several books, including a continuation of the Ukiyo-e Ruiko (History of Prints of the Floating World), a book which documented the lives of the ukiyo-e artists. His supplement is known as Notes of a Nameless Old Man. He describes himself as a dissolute hard-drinker and claims to have been the owner of a brothel in Nezu in 1830s which had burned down.
SIZE IN INCHES: oban 10.5 x 15.5 inches
EISEN WAS BORN IN EDO into the Ikeda family, the son of a noted calligrapher. He was apprenticed to Kana Hakkeisai, from whom he took the name Keisai, and after the death of his father he studied under Kikugawa Eizan. His initial works reflected the influence of his mentor, but he soon developed his own style.
He produced a number of surimono (prints that were privately issued), erotic prints, and landscapes, including Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido, which he started and which was completed by Hiroshige. However, his most famous works are the bijin-e (pictures of beautiful women) which portrayed the subjects as more worldly than those depicted by earlier artists, replacing their grace and elegance with a less studied sensuality. He produced many portraits and full-length studies depicting the fashions of the time.
In addition to producing a prolific number of prints, he was a writer, producing biographies of the Forty-seven Ronin and several books, including a continuation of the Ukiyo-e Ruiko (History of Prints of the Floating World), a book which documented the lives of the ukiyo-e artists. His supplement is known as Notes of a Nameless Old Man. He describes himself as a dissolute hard-drinker and claims to have been the owner of a brothel in Nezu in 1830s which had burned down.
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Eisen: Woman Lighting a Lamp Woodblock NR
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