Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter ca. 1811 Chbunsai Eishi This triptych of paintings by noted Ukiyo-e painter Chbunsai Eishi takes up the most unusual subject of scenes of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters as dream-like apparitions emanating from shellfish. Reflecting the painter’s diverse training as a young man—some accounts say he studied in the studio of Kano Michinobu (1730-1790)— the shellfish and plum branches are very much in Kano ink-wash style, while the figures are in Ukiyo-e polychrome. Around 1785, after Eishi had given three years of service to the tenth shogun, Tokugawa Ieharu (r. 1760-86), he switched his artistic affiliation from the academic style to ukiyo-e, specializing in woodblock prints and paintings of courtesans.Most remarkably, the surrounding mounting silks of this triptych are inscribed with witty poems and popular songs related to Yoshiwara in the distinctive hand of the poet-calligrapher and literary celebrity ta Nanpo, bet

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Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter ca. 1811 Chbunsai Eishi This triptych of paintings by noted Ukiyo-e painter Chbunsai Eishi takes up the most unusual subject of scenes of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters as dream-like apparitions emanating from shellfish. Reflecting the painter’s diverse training as a young man—some accounts say he studied in the studio of Kano Michinobu (1730-1790)— the shellfish and plum branches are very much in Kano ink-wash style, while the figures are in Ukiyo-e polychrome. Around 1785, after Eishi had given three years of service to the tenth shogun, Tokugawa Ieharu (r. 1760-86), he switched his artistic affiliation from the academic style to ukiyo-e, specializing in woodblock prints and paintings of courtesans.Most remarkably, the surrounding mounting silks of this triptych are inscribed with witty poems and popular songs related to Yoshiwara in the distinctive hand of the poet-calligrapher and literary celebrity ta Nanpo, bet

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