Isoda Koryusai - (Artist Intro)

ARTIST: Isoda Koryusai
FAMILY NAME: Isoda
BORN: 1735
DIED: 1770
NOTES: Koryūsai worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of the clan and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he settled near Ryōgoku Bridge in the Yagenbori area. He became a print designer there under the art name Haruhiro in 1769, at first making samurai-themed designs. The ukiyo-e print master Harunobu died in 1770, and about that time Koryūsai began making prints in a similar style of life in the pleasure districts.
Koryūsai was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series, most of which appeared between 1769 and 1881. Koryūsai's known designs total 2500.

Signatures and Seals

Koryûsai ga

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Examples of his work;

Twelve Bouts of Sensuality: men and women intermingling in bathouse