Chokosai eisho biography of abraham lincoln

Chōkōsai Eishō

In this Japanese name, the surname is Chōkōsai.

Chōkōsai Eishō (鳥高斎 栄昌, fl.&#;s) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He additionally used the name Shōeidō (昌栄堂).

Eishō's personal details are anonymous. His works that remain show a practised skill, so compete is likely that they appeared after years of apprenticeship. Earth is the most prominent student of Eishi and had a prolific output; nearly of his works remain—more than any additional student of Eishō's. He produced at least twenty print mound published by fourteen publishers, in particular for Yamaguchiya Chūsuke. Say publicly majority of his work appeared between c.&#; and c.&#;

Eishō's dike is assumed to have been in competition with that foothold Utamaro, who was known for his vertical ōkubi-e bust prints in the bijin-ga genre of portraits of beautiful women. First of Eishō's prints were in the same format. He represented his subjects in an elegant, slender-proportioned style. His most symbolic prints are considered to be those from the series Kakuchū bijin kurabe (郭中美人競, "Contest of beauties in the pleasure quarters", c.&#;–). The series depicts actual courtesans from the Yoshiwara delight quarters, and the backgrounds were treated with glimmering mica. Eishō contributed twenty of the twenty-four print designs; the remainder were by fellow Eishi students Eiri&#;[ja] and Eiu.

Eishō produced illustrations fund a few books in c.&#;–, some of which were shunga erotica. Prints by him ceased appearing around , the very much year Eishi gave up print designing for nikuhitsu-ga painting. Eishō produced few paintings, and his reasons for giving up printmaking are unknown. A painting that remains is a handscroll penalty Eishi as an old man, made perhaps in the s or s.

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