Isoda Koryūsai was born in Japan and lived from about 1735 to 1789. Isoda counts among the Ukiyoe artists and Ukiyoe means translated roughly "pictures of the flowing world". Under the term ukiyoe a group of artists was summarized, who stood for a special genre of art in the Edo period. They were mainly known for their prints, but also for their paintings. The Ukiyoe artists reflected in their works the cheerful attitude to life of a growing middle class in cities like Edo, today's Tokyo. While the term had until then been associated with a rather inhibited and contemplative attitude to life, Ukioye became a term that embodied life and enjoyment at the beginning of the 18th century.
Isoda was first a samurai of the Tsuchiya-Han, but then gave up his position to devote himself to art. He mainly created prints and his preferred format was the elongated portrait format, which was called the "post format". Until 1770 he was strongly oriented artistically towards his teachers Nishimura Shigenaga, of whom one only suspects that he taught Isoda, and Suzuki Harunobu. After that he developed his own personal style.
Isoda mainly depicted young women, in social or private scenes. One of his most famous works is certainly the series "Young Dolls in Their New Year's Clothes". It shows the courtesans of the brothel district in Edo. His works are today represented in the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Met Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, among others.
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.jpg "Young Woman Hanging a Painting by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Lovers Behind a Screen (Twelve Views of Refined Edo) by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Couple Conjuring Up a Horse and Rider (parody of Tekkai and Chokaro) by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Gibbon snatching sake pot from flower-viewing party by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Shirotae of the Okanaya, from the series Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Young Woman Drops her Geta as She Boards a Boat by Isoda Koryusai")
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_from_the_series_Fashionable_Twelve_Signs_of_the_Zodiac_(Furyu_juni_-_(MeisterDrucke-1299606).jpg "Monkey, from the series")
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.jpg "Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Ono no Komachi Visiting Kiyomizu Temple, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi by Isoda Koryusai")
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_from_the_series_Fashionable_Twelve_Months_(Furyu_juni_-_(MeisterDrucke-1291971).jpg "The Eighth Month, from the series")
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.jpg "Parody of the Third Princess and Her Pet Cat by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Beauty in an Autumn Field by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya House by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Mother and Child at Play, 18th century by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Morokoshi of Echizan with Child and Attendant by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh Young Leaves: The Courtesan Nanasato of the Yotsumeya with Her Attendants Nanaji and Satoji by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Ono no Komachi at Seki Temple, from the series The Seven Fashionable Komachi by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Parody of the Seventh Act of the Chushingura Play by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Ono no Komachi at Seki Temple, from the series The Seven Fashionable Komachi, c.1771 by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "The Syllable Wa. Prostitutes of the Tsutaya: Hitomachi, kamuro Saruhe and Matsuyo; Shizukinu, kamuro Konomo and Kanomo by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Egrets in the Reeds by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Cooling young woman by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Young Couple Dressed as Mendicant Monks by Isoda Koryusai")
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.jpg "Cocks Fighting Under a Tree by Isoda Koryusai")
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