Eishi
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service organization: SMVK-EM
service organization full: Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet
build date: 2026-08-17
url: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/3213022
subject: culturalHistory
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item key word: Yeisen
item key word: Ikeda
item key word: Eisho
item key word: Eisen
item key word: Eizan
item key word: Eishi
item title: konstnär
item label: Keisai Eisen
is described by: Keisai Eisen
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Beskrivning
  desc: Keisai Eisen, född 1790, död 1848, var en japansk ukiyo-e-konstnär som var specialiserad på bijinga (avbildningar av vackra kvinnor). Hans mest kända verk räknas som mästerverk inom den "dekadenta" Bunsei-eran (1818–1830). (Wikipedia, 2013-11-25) Även 1791-1851 har angetts som hans levnadsår.
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  type: Tidpunkt / födelse
  desc: 1790
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  type: Tidpunkt / död
  desc: 1848
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  type: Beskrivning / engelska
  desc: Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790 – 1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijinga (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. Biography Eisen was born in Edo into the Ikeda family, the son of a noted calligrapher. He was apprenticed to Kanō Hakkeisai, from whom he took the name Keisai, and after the death of his father he studied under Kikugawa Eizan. His initial works reflected the influence of his mentor, but he soon developed his own style. He produced a number of surimono (prints that were privately issued), erotic prints, and landscapes, including The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō, which he started and which was completed by Hiroshige. However, his most famous works are the bijin-e (pictures of beautiful women) which portrayed the subjects as more worldly than those depicted by earlier artists, replacing their grace and elegance with a less studied sensuality. He produced many portraits and full-length studies depicting the fashions of the time. In addition to producing a prolific number of prints, he was a writer, producing biographies of the Forty-seven Ronin and several books, including a continuation of the Ukiyo-e Ruiko (History of Prints of the Floating World), a book which documented the lives of the ukiyo-e 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. (wikipedia 2013-11-25) @en
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  name: Keisai Eisen
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  context type: start
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  country: jp
  country name: Japan
  from time: 1790
  to time: 1790
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  context type: stop
  context super type: cease
  from time: 1848
  to time: 1848
item license: cc0
item license url: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
presentation: 1.3.0 2026-08-17 Keisai Eisen Rådata 3213022 name Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet SMVK-EM Namn http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/3213022 - id - Keisai Eisen, född 1790, död 1848, var en japansk ukiyo-e-konstnär som var specialiserad på bijinga (avbildningar av vackra kvinnor). Hans mest kända verk räknas som mästerverk inom den "dekadenta" Bunsei-eran (1818–1830). (Wikipedia, 2013-11-25) Även 1791-1851 har angetts som hans levnadsår. 1790, 1848, Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790 – 1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijinga (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. Biography Eisen was born in Edo into the Ikeda family, the son of a noted calligrapher. He was apprenticed to Kanō Hakkeisai, from whom he took the name Keisai, and after the death of his father he studied under Kikugawa Eizan. His initial works reflected the influence of his mentor, but he soon developed his own style. He produced a number of surimono (prints that were privately issued), erotic prints, and landscapes, including The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō, which he started and which was completed by Hiroshige. However, his most famous works are the bijin-e (pictures of beautiful women) which portrayed the subjects as more worldly than those depicted by earlier artists, replacing their grace and elegance with a less studied sensuality. He produced many portraits and full-length studies depicting the fashions of the time. In addition to producing a prolific number of prints, he was a writer, producing biographies of the Forty-seven Ronin and several books, including a continuation of the Ukiyo-e Ruiko (History of Prints of the Floating World), a book which documented the lives of the ukiyo-e artists. His supplement is known as "Notes of a Nameless Old Man." H…