Eishi

Chōbunsai Eishi (鳥文斎 栄之^?, 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 prints 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.

Eishi was born Hosoda Tokitomi (細田 時富) in 1756 to a well-provided samurai family that was part of the prestigious Fujiwara clan. His grandfather Hosoda Tokitoshi (細田 時敏) had held an influential position in the shogunate as Treasury Minister. In 1772 he came to head his family when his father Hosoda Tokiyuki (細田 時行) died. From 1781 he held a position in the palace of the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieharu.

How Eishi took to art is unknown. He appears to have studied under Kanō Michinobu of the Kanō school of painting, from whom he likely was given the art name Eishi—though tradition holds he received the name from Shogun Ieharu. About 1784 he left the official service of the Shogun and began to train under Torii Bunryūsai, an ukiyo-e artist about whom almost nothing is known. Eishi's earliest known work dates to the following year. He remained unofficially in the Shogun's service until 1789, and thereafter left his family in the hands of his adopted son Tokitoyo (時豊), thereby giving up his samurai rank; he reasoned that his ill health did not permit him to continue with such duties.

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