Information
Date : c. 1837
Size : O-ban
Impression : Very good
Condition : Good
Detail : Centerfold / Browned / Wormholes / Backed
Hoei-do, the publisher of the successful 53 Stations of Tokaido, published 69 Stations of Kiso Kaido in 1835. Eisen produced up to the 11th station, Honjo-Juku Station, after which he was replaced by Hiroshige and the publishers Hoei-do and Kinju-do jointly published the series. Considering the fact that Eisen's work is only 24 of 71 in the series and that Eisen's signature was removed from the plate in later prints, we can assume that this is a first edition.
Although this work is a landscape, Eisen is recognized as a painter of beautiful women.
Eisen began painting fragile female beauties like his master Eizan, but later became famous for his unique and fascinating painting style.
Her paintings are characterized by a six-headed, long-bodied, hunchbacked female figure full of refracted emotions. Eisen portrayed prostitutes in Oka places such as the Fukagawa and Yoshiwara brothels as women with bewitching and strong-willed looks in their eyes.