92 – Shunsen: Kingfisher on Bamboo

Shunsen: Kingfisher on Bamboo

 

Here we have a kachô-e, Kingfisher on Bamboo. It is also an aizuri-e, that is to say that the only colour is blue.

Katsukawa Shunsen (1762 - about 1830) also called himself Shunkō II when he succeeded Shunkō I as the head of the Katsukawa school.

67 - Sekkyô: White Falcon in a Pine Tree

Sekkyô: White Falcon in a Pine Tree

This is White Falcon in a Pine Tree, by Sawa Sekkyô, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th century. His studies of birds are often, as here, made as aizuri-e, with only blue colour.

51 - Hiroshige II: Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa

Hiroshige II: Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa

Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1868), originally Shinpei Suzuki, was a student of Hiroshige I, the "great" Hiroshige. He married the latter's daughter and when Hiroshige I died, Shinpei Suzuki took his teacher's name. He continued to work in the classical Hiroshige style, and his works are confusingly similar to those of Hiroshige I.

The print above is from the middle of the 19th century: Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital.

This is an aizuri-e, a print primarily in blue.

26 - Eisen: Summer

Eisen: Summer

This is a kachô-e by Keisai Eisen (1790-1848). It is called "Summer" and is from a series named "The Four Seasons", which Eisen created in 1820.

The print is mainly blue. That makes it an "aizuri-e". The little added orange doesn't change that. The term denotes prints being entirely in blue or where blue is dominating.