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Hosoda Eishi
Hosoda Eishi
Hosoda Eishi

Hosoda Eishi

born Edo, Japan, 1756; died Edo, Japan, 1829
BiographyEishi Hosoda was born into the Hosoda samurai family as Tokitomi Fujiwara-no-Jibukyo in 1756. Living in Edo, Eishi began his career in painting, studying first in the Kano school, then under Bunryusai. He became a court painter and high court official to the Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa. In fact, it was the shogun who bestowed the name Eishi on the artist. Around the age of thirty, Eishi left the court and began working as a ukiyo-e woodblock artist. In 1800, he left printmaking and returned to painting.

[source: Ronin Gallery, accessed March 2022]
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