The Luminous Legacy of Chōkōsai Eishō Within the vibrant, ephemeral world of Edo-period Japan, few names evoke the shimmering allure of the pleasure quarters quite like Chōkōsai Eishō. A master of the ukiyo-e genre, Eishō remains a captivating enigma, a figure whose personal history is shrouded in the mists of time, yet whose artistic presence remains strikingly vivid. Though his birthdate and lineage remain elusive to historians, his…