Currently on display at Sano Art Museum
until 25 october 2020
Eiho Hirezaki (1880-1968) is a painter who gained popularity for bijin-ga. Born in Tokyo, at the age of 17, he became an ukiyo-e artist, Toshihide Migita, and eventually established his name as an illustrator while presenting Japanese paintings at exhibitions.
Eiho showed his true essence in the frontispieces that decorate the beginnings of novels and literary magazines. Eiho delicately portrayed the emotions of the heroine of the story, fascinated the readers, and colored the literary world of the Meiji and Taisho eras... [continue reading]
Cover for Izumi Kyōka novel Zoko Fūryūsen (The wind flow line) (1905)
Illustration for Kyoka Izumi's "Onna Keizu" Part 1 (1908)
Illustration for "Yokokushi Otomi" ("Entertainment World") Suzuki Shoten, october 1914
"untitled illustration insert (the print has the characteristic three horizontal folds) for an unidentified magazine, likely issued around 1920"
"Ghost Before a Mosquito Net (蚊帳の前の幽霊), 1906"
Horse and owner
Bijin unwell
Bijin and plum tree
Nasanu Naka
Spring Leaves
Woman in snow
