Information
Date : 1804 - 29
Size : O-ban / Diptych
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Slight browning
Eizan first studied painting under his father, and later under Suzuki Nanrei. Through his childhood friend Hokkei, he also absorbed the style of the Hokusai school.
After the sudden death of Utamaro, the emerging artist Eizan gained prominence, particularly in the genre of bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women. He established his own distinctive style of depicting women with a gentle and somewhat fragile beauty, leading the development of a new era of bijin-ga.
From the mid-Bunka to mid-Bunsei periods (around 1807–1827), he produced many bijin-ga series and helped popularize the format of two-panel hanging scroll-style prints featuring full-length portraits of women.