Harukawa Eizan
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was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e
style Japanese woodblock prints
who was active in the 1790s. He is believed to have been a student of Chōbunsai Eishi, and was the teacher of Harukawa Goshichi.
This artist should not be confused with Kikukawa Eizan
(1787-1867), a later designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
Ukiyo-e
' is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters...
style Japanese woodblock prints
Woodblock printing in Japan
Woodblock printing in Japan is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre; however, it was also used very widely for printing books in the same period. Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was only...
who was active in the 1790s. He is believed to have been a student of Chōbunsai Eishi, and was the teacher of Harukawa Goshichi.
This artist should not be confused with Kikukawa Eizan
Kikukawa Eizan
was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school. He then studied with Suzuki Nanrei , an artist of the Shijō school. He is believed to have also studied with the ukiyo-e artist Totoya Hokkei...
(1787-1867), a later designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.