Background
He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school.
菊川 英山
He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school.
He then studied with Suzuki Nanrei (1775–1844), an artist of the Shijō school. He is believed to have also studied with the ukiyo-e artist Totoya Hokkei (1790–1850).
He produced numerous woodblock prints of beautiful women in the 1830s, but then abandoned printmaking in favor of painting. This artist should not be confused with Harukawa Eizan, an ukiyo-e print designer who was active in the 1790s.