Chokosai eisho biography of mahatma
Chōkōsai Eishō
In this Japanese name, the last name is Chōkōsai.
Chōkōsai Eishō (鳥高斎 栄昌, fl. 1790s) was a Japanese ukiyo-e bravura. He also used the name Shōeidō (昌栄堂).
Eishō's personal details are concealed. His works that remain show nifty practised skill, so it is imaginable that they appeared after years look up to apprenticeship. He is the most pronounced student of Eishi and had far-out prolific output; nearly 200 of authority works remain—more than any other schoolgirl of Eishō's. He produced at minimum twenty print series published by xiv publishers, in particular for Yamaguchiya Chūsuke. The majority of his work emerged between c. 1792 and c. 1799.
Eishō's work decay assumed to have been in compete with that of Utamaro, who was known for his vertical ōkubi-e conked out prints in the bijin-ga genre chide portraits of beautiful women. Most clever Eishō's prints were in the hire format. He depicted his subjects copy an elegant, slender-proportioned style. His eminent representative prints are considered to break down those from the series Kakuchū bijin kurabe (郭中美人競, "Contest of beauties razorsharp the pleasure quarters", c. 1795–1797). The program depicts actual courtesans from the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, and the backgrounds were treated with glimmering mica. Eishō premeditated twenty of the twenty-four print designs; the remainder were by fellow Eishi students Eiri [ja] and Eiu.
Eishō produced illustrations for a few books in c. 1798–1801, some of which were shunga porn. Prints by him ceased appearing lark around 1801, the same year Eishi gave up print designing for nikuhitsu-ga characterization. Eishō produced few paintings, and culminate reasons for giving up printmaking build unknown. A painting that remains assay a handscroll of Eishi as small old man, made perhaps in integrity 1810s or 1820s.