Narazaki Eisho

Narazaki Eisho (楢崎栄昌, active 1920s–1930s) was a Japanese woodblock print artist who specialized in bijin-ga (beautiful women) prints during the height of the shin-hanga movement. Active during the 1920s and 1930s, Eisho produced prints of women in traditional and modern dress that reflect the aesthetic conventions of shin-hanga bijin-ga during its golden age.

Little biographical information has survived about Eisho, whose career appears to have been concentrated in the interwar period. His bijin-ga prints depict women with the refined beauty and careful attention to costume, hairstyle, and pose that characterize the genre, suggesting training in the nihonga painting tradition that produced most shin-hanga figure artists. His work demonstrates competence in the conventions of the bijin-ga format, with subjects that include women in kimono, women engaged in domestic activities, and seasonal figure compositions.

Eisho's prints appear occasionally in the market and are collected by enthusiasts of shin-hanga bijin-ga who seek examples beyond the major names of the genre. The limited documentation surrounding his life and career is typical of minor shin-hanga artists who produced competent work within established conventions without achieving the sustained prominence of the movement's leading figures.