Yuranosuke in the Pleasure Quarters
Yuranosuke in the Pleasure Quarters. Chōbunsai Eishi (1756–1829) 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. He was a prolific painter, and from 1801 gave up print designing to devote himself to painting.
Size: 3808px × 1877px
Location: Japan
Photo credit: © The Protected Art Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: japanese, pleasure, quarters, women, woodblock, woodcut
