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Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790–1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women). His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large head pictures"), are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818–1830). He was also known as Ikeda Eisen, and wrote under the name of Ippitsuan.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:45, 22 January 2014: 1,410 × 1,000 (415 KB): Hiart {{Information |Description=''An Urban Couple Amidst their Clothing'' by Keisai Eisen, From the series ''Grass on the Way of Love'' (''Koi no michikusa''), c. 1825, GeishaHonolulu Museum of Art |Source=GeishaHonolulu Museum of Art |Date=c. 1825 |Author=...
Kōjien defines bijin-ga as a picture that simply "emphasizes the beauty of women", [1] and the Shincho Encyclopedia of World Art defines it as depiction of "the beauty of a woman's appearance". [2] On the other hand, Gendai Nihon Bijin-ga Zenshū Meisaku-sen I defines bijin-ga as pictures that explore "the inner beauty of women". [3]
Gourmet Girl Graffiti, known in Japan as Happy Cooking Graffiti (幸腹グラフィティ, Kōfuku Gurafiti), is a four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Makoto Kawai.
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Nightscene in Yoshiwara (吉原格子先之図) by Katsushika Ōi, which featured in the credits. Miss Hokusai (百日紅, Sarusuberi) is a Japanese historical manga series written and illustrated by Hinako Sugiura, telling the story of Katsushika Ōi who worked in the shadow of her father Hokusai.
It specialized in paintings (nikuhitsu-ga) and prints of kabuki actors , sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women . The painter Miyagawa Shunsui changed his surname to Katsukawa. One of his students, Katsukawa Shunshō , took his surname and abandoned the school's tradition of painting well-dressed beauties in favour of yakusha-e portraits of kabuki ...
Hokusai himself noted his daughters' talent when it came to depicting beautiful women, remarking on her technique as forces to be reckoned with, forces he himself could not compete with. [8] Other artists at the time like Keisai Eisen regarded her as accomplished, for despite being a woman, Ōi garnered a reputation as a skillful artist after ...