The courtesan Kashiku of the Tsuruya with two child attendants

Dated c. 1824/29 by the Art Institute of Chicago and identified as one sheet of an [oban](/glossary/oban) [triptych](/glossary/triptych), this print shows Kashiku, a named oiran of the Tsuruya — another of the great Yoshiwara houses — with two child attendants (kamuro). The dochu format displayed the senior courtesan in full procession finery alongside her young attendants, who carried her trains and accompanied her on formal walks. This print belongs to Eizan's later production, in the years when Keisai Eisen was already producing his own oiran subjects in the Kikukawa idiom, and the two artists' careers overlap visibly in this period. Eizan's Kashiku image displays his fully-developed late style — slightly heavier robes, more dense patterning, and the elongated face and neck that had become his signature. As a named-courtesan portrait it also functions as a Yoshiwara document, recording the specific composition of the Tsuruya house in the mid-1820s.