Kikugawa Eizan

Kikugawa Eizan was among the last great masters of bijin-ga (beautiful women) in the ukiyo-e tradition. A student of his father Kikugawa Eiji, he developed a distinctive elongated figure style that bridged the classical canon with the evolving tastes of the late Edo period. His prints were widely collected in Europe during the Japonisme movement of the 1860s-80s.