One of the foremost artists of the school. He was a samurai of high rank, and a pupil of Kano Eisen. For three years before he took to Ukiyoé he held an official post in the household of the shogun Iyeharu. Eishi was a master of all the resources of the art of colour-printing and his prints are characterized by great elegance and refinement. He worked from about 1782 to 1800, when he gave up print-designing. He died in 1829. LENT BY SAMUAL ISHAM. _ 149 Triptych._ Eight women and a man playing the game of “Catch the fox.” 150 Group of Yoshiwara women and attendants. 151 Someyama and her kamuro playing with a pet dog. 152 Yoshiwara women admiring a branch of mume tree with unopened flower buds. _ 153 Triptych._ Fête in a nobleman’s palace. Ladies composing poems. [EISHI. Fête in a nobleman’s palace.] EISHI. Fête in a nobleman’s palace. LENT BY MRS. WILLIAM BENJAMIN WOOD. 154 Another copy of the foregoing triptych. Shows how beautifully the purple changes by chemical decomposition. LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. 155 Oiran and attendants on parade. LENT BY A COLLECTOR. 156 A Yoshiwara beauty. Ink proof of the key block. 157 Two women entering a room in the palace of Prince Genji, where a young girl is seated playing with a kitten. YEISHOSAI CHOKI An artist of ability, though not quite of the first rank. His prints are rare. He worked at first in the style of Kiyonaga. Later he imitated Utamaro, and changed his “goÌ,” or studio name, to Momokawa Shiko. LENT BY A COLLECTOR. 158 Woman and child catching fireflies. TOSHUSAI SHARAKU This artist was by profession a performer of the stately and aristocratic No dramas in the service of Hachisuka, Daimyo of Awa. During the period from about 1790 to 1795 he designed a small number of caricature portraits of actors, which have great force and distinguished character. LENT BY YAMANAKA & COMPANY.