Baiōken Eishun (; active ) was a Japanese painter and print artist of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e art. He is also alternatively known as Hasegawa Eishun , Baiōken Nagaharu, Takeda HarunobuMorse, Anne Nishimura et al. Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690-1850. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. p80. and a number of other art-names. He produced both hanging scroll full-color paintings typical of the Kaigetsudō style and mode, and a number of designs for illustrations for woodblock printed books.
Richard Lane describes Eishun's work as very similar to that of Matsuno Chikanobu, though the courtesans in his bijinga (paintings of beauties) are somewhat taller, slimmer, and more serious-looking. Eishun, along with Chikanobu, represents something of a revival of the Kaigetsudō school which fell into decline in the preceding decades following the exile of its founder, Kaigetsudō Ando, in 1714.
Eishun and Chikanobu are also presumed to have worked for a time in association with the painter Baiyūken Katsunobu. According to some 1980s scholarship that redated one of Eishun's triptychs, however, both artists may instead have been independent rivals of the Kaigetsudō atelier rather than its late followers.
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References Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ; OCLC 5246796 Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). "Baiōken Nagaharu," Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301