Japan: A double bust portrait showing the courtesans Takigawa and Hanaogi from the Yoshiwara house Ogaya. Woodblock print by Kikukawa Eizan (1787-1867), 1808. Kikukawa Eizan was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school. He then studied with Suzuki Nanrei (1775–1844), an artist of the Shijō school. He is believed to have also studied with the ukiyo-e artist Totoya Hokkei (1790–1850). He produced numerous woodblock prints of beautiful women in the 1830s, but then abandoned printmaking in favor of painting.

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