Women picking wild flowers under
a cherry tree in bloom.
HOSODA EISHI
One of the foremost artists of the school. He was a samurai of high rank, and a pupil of Kano Eisen. For three years before he took to Ukiyoé he held an official post in the household of the shogun Iyeharu. Eishi was a master of all the resources of the art of colour-printing and his prints are characterized by great elegance and refinement. He worked from about 1782 to 1800, when he gave up print-designing. He died in 1829.
LENT BY SAMUAL ISHAM.
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Triptych. Eight women
and a man playing the game of “Catch the fox.”
150
Group of Yoshiwara women and
attendants.
151
Someyama and her kamuro playing
with a pet dog.
152
Yoshiwara women admiring a
branch of mume tree with unopened flower buds.
153
Triptych. Fête in a
nobleman's palace. Ladies composing poems.
