Japan: 'Five Teahouse Waitresses'. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Chobunsai Eishi (1756-1829), 1793. Chobunsai Eishi, true name Hosoda Tokitomi, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period. From a well-off samurai family and first son of a direct vassal of the Shogunate, he left the Shogun's employ to pursue art, with his earliest prints being mostly bijin-ga (beauty) portraits. He eventually established his own school to rival that of Kitagawa Utamaro, and was a prolific painter, giving up print designing in 1801 to focus solely on painting.

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