Kisen Hoshi, from the series "Fashionable Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Furyu kodakara rokkasen)"
- Date:
- c. 1814/17
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
This Art Institute of Chicago [oban](/glossary/oban), also dated c. 1814/17, casts a child as Kisen Hoshi, the monk-poet of the Rokkasen whose single famous waka describes his life as a hut at Ujiyama south of Kyoto. Eizan's design gives the child the suggestion of monkish costume — a robe and perhaps a tonsured cap — while keeping the bright color palette and lively pose typical of his [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) work. The Kisen sheet is one of the more visually quiet of the six, in keeping with the poet's reclusive reputation, and it shows Eizan modulating between exuberant and contemplative moods within a single series. The full Furyu kodakara rokkasen represents one of the most charming Kikukawa-school projects and is generally considered among Eizan's best-preserved series in Western collections.
c. 1824/29
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1814/17
Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych (right sheet: 1963.613)
c. 1814/17
Color woodblock print; oban
early 19th century
Color woodblock print; oban
Kisen Hoshi, from the series "Fashionable Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Furyu kodakara rokkasen)" was created by Kikukawa Eizan (菊川英山) in c. 1814/17.
Kisen Hoshi, from the series "Fashionable Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Furyu kodakara rokkasen)" depicts children.
