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Chōbunsai Eishi

ca. 1797 · Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Eishi, born of a samurai family, studied under Kano Eisen'in Sukenobu (1730–1790), the fifth-generation head of Kobikichō, one of four Kano academies in Edo. He was granted the artist's name of Eishi by Shogun Tokugawa Ieharu. Yuranosuke, a kabuki hero from Kana-dehon Cho-ushingura, posed as a playboy to show that he had no intention of taking revenge for his lord, who had been forced to commit suicide.

Artist

Chōbunsai Eishi

Date

ca. 1797

Medium

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914