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Keisai Eisen

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artists. His supplement is known as "Notes of a Nameless Old Man." He describes himself as a dissolute hard-drinker and claims to have been the owner of a brothel in Nezu in the 1830s which had burned down.
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picture by Eisen (from the series 'Toto geiko') - this was the type of picture for which he has become best known.
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In addition to producing a prolific number of prints, he was a writer, producing biographies of the
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Era (1818–1830). He was also known as Ikeda Eisen, and wrote under the name of Ippitsuan.
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Signatures of Keisai Eisen reading from left to right: "Eisen
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Eisen, woodblock print on paper, 1830 (private collection)
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Japanese
ukiyo-e
bijin-ga
ōkubi-e
Bunsei

Edo
calligrapher
Kanō Hakkeisai
Kikukawa Eizan
surimono
erotic prints
The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
Hiroshige
Forty-seven Ronin
Ukiyo-e Ruiko
Courtesan, c. 1808
Water dragon, c. 1830–48
Winter landscape
Signatures of Keisai Eisen reading from left to right: "Eisen ga" (英泉 画), "Keisai" (渓斎), and "Keisai Eisen ga" (渓斎 英泉 画)
Keisai Eisen
"Keisai Eisen"
"Keisai Eisen"
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Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock printing

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