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Date : -
Size : O-ban
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Slight browning / Very small worm holes
The word "契情" refers to prostitutes, and this series is a combination of popular Yoshiwara prostitutes of the time and famous places.
For a courtesan, it was essential to have not only good looks, but also to be well educated and to excel in the arts.
Eisen started out painting fragile female beauties like his master, Eizan, but later became popular for his unique and bewitching style of painting.
Her paintings are characterized by a six-headed, long-bodied, hunchbacked female figure that is full of refracted emotions. Eisen portrayed prostitutes in Oka places like Fukagawa and in Yoshiwara brothels as women with a bewitching and strong-willed look in their eyes. This work symbolically represents the decadent aesthetic of the late Edo period, the Bunka-Bunsei period, and shows a strong painting style that reflects the state of affairs at the end of the Edo period.