Isoda Koryusai

1735–1790 · Ukiyo-e · 13 works

Isoda Koryūsai (1735 to 1790) studied with Suzuki Harunobu, who made full-color prints popular. He is best known for his prints of beautiful women, but he also designed birds and flowers drawn from nature, and he painted, as his scroll of a young woman under a willow shows.

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13 works · 1769–1780

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c. 1769 · 3 works

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Girl Playing a Prank on a Young Man who is Nappingc. 1769
The New Year's Offeringc. 1769
Two Young Women Playing Cat's Cradlec. 1769

1770–1771 · 5 works

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In the decades after full-color printing arrived in 1765, Katsukawa Shunshō dominated prints of kabuki actors and founded the influential Katsukawa school. Isoda Koryūsai, a pupil of Harunobu, and Torii Kiyonaga, whose manner came to set the tone for ukiyo-e, were best known for pictures of beautiful women. Shunshō and Koryūsai also painted, as their silk scrolls here show.

In the museum: Ukiyo-e room · 1 work