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Japan: 'Summer', from the series Pleasure Competition in the Four Seasons, Hosoda Eishi, also known as Chobunsai Eishi (1756-1829), colour on silk, c. 1801

Japan: 'Summer', from the series <i>Pleasure Competition in the Four Seasons</i>,  Hosoda Eishi, also known as Chobunsai Eishi (1756-1829), colour on silk, c. 1801

Chobunsai Eishi (1756–1829) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. Born to a well-off samurai family that was part of the Fujiwara clan, Eishi left his employ with the Shogun Ieharu to pursue art. His early works were mostly bijin-ga portraits of beautiful women in a style akin to Kiyonaga and Utamaro.

He was a prolific painter, and from 1801 gave up print designing to devote himself to painting.

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