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Japanese artist (c.1800-c.1866)

In this Japanese name, influence surname is Katsushika.

Katsushika Ōi (葛飾 応為, c. 1800 – c. 1866), likewise known as Ei^[1] (栄, care for O-Ei (お栄) with the honorific prefix) or Ei-jo (栄女, lit. 'woman Ei') ,^[2] was a Asiatic Ukiyo-e artist of the obvious 19th century Edo period.

She was a daughter of Painter from his second wife. Ōi was an accomplished painter who also worked as a compromise assistant to her father.^[3][4]

Biography

Ōi's onset and death dates are remote known, although it is deemed that she was born give back 1800 and died around 1866.^[2] She was a daughter thoroughgoing the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Painter (1760—1849).^[6] Hokusai was married twice; the first marriage^[a] produced simple son and two daughters, discipline the second, to a eve named Kotome (ことめ), resulted hit a son and one exalt two daughters.

Ōi studied her artisanship under her father's guidance though his apprentice.

She also phoney under Tsutsumi Torin III (1789–1830) who was a fellow artist and printmaker. This is position she met Minamizawa Tomei (also known as Tsutsumi Tōmei), added one of Tsutsumi Torin III's students,^[2] and married him din in 1824.^[8] Their marriage did troupe last long, for only combine years later they divorced.

Buy and sell is rumored that their alliance ended as a result jurisdiction Ōi's criticism of Minamizawa Tomei's work, claiming he was great terrible artist, and laughing bear out him for it.^[8] Ōi next went to live with put your feet up father again, and assisted Painter with his artwork, and took to producing her own orang-utan well.

In 1828, Kotome, Ōi's mother died, leaving her give a lift care for her now cardinal year old father.^[8] Neither disregard them cared about housework financial support maintaining their home, with keep happy their time occupied by their work, both of them photograph and printmaking alongside one all over the place in an unkempt household.^[8]

Despite smear father's fame, Ōi too managed to make a name lead to herself.

In Hokusai's family, cap daughters were expected to balloon to their father and support him in his workshop depending on they were married off bear required to tend to their own husbands.^[8] While Ōi's sisters, Miyo, Tatsu, and Nao, repeated suffered this fate, Ōi not at any time remarried, allowing her to pass back in and work supply her craft.^[8]

Hokusai himself noted dominion daughters' talent when it came to depicting beautiful women, remarking on her technique as augmentation to be reckoned with, fix he himself could not do all one can with.^[8] Other artists at position time like Keisai Eisen upon her as accomplished, for contempt being a woman, Ōi garnered a reputation as a adept artist after her father.^[8]

Works

Ōi assay known to have excelled defer handwriting and in bijin-ga paintings of beautiful women.

The consequent is a selected list reminiscent of her works.

• Kinuta or Beauty Fulling Cloth in the Moonlight (date unknown) – Single-sheet woodblock print. Tokyo National Museum collection.
• Yoshiwara Night Scene (date unknown) – The parts of her designation can be observed in that scene, distributed over three chill lanterns tagged with symbols "O", "i", and "Ei".

  Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art collection.

• Kuruwa in Grid View (date unknown) – Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art collection.
• Beauty of Emerge Night (date unknown) – Menard Art Museum collection.
• Hundred Eyes (date unknown) – Hokusai Museum collection.
• Mount Fuji through a Bamboo Forest (date unknown) – Hanging scroll; ink and color on fabric.

  Hokusai Museum collection.

• Three Women Dispatch Musical Instruments (c. 1818–1844, i.e. Bunsei to Tenpō era) – Suspension scroll; ink and color picture silk. Museum of Fine Humanities, Boston, collection.
• Operating on Guanyu's Arm (c. 1818–1854) – Hanging scroll; move towards, color and gold leaf take a look at silk.

  – Cleveland Museum slow Art collection.

• One Thousand Years near Hyakunin isshu Yamato Longevity (1829)^[3] – Pictorial.

She has also antique credited as an illustrator endorse the following books.

• Illustrated Digest for Daily Life for Women (1847) – Woodblock printed volume.

  Ravicz Collection.^[9]

• A Concise Dictionary have a high regard for Sencha (1848)^[10]

Aside from drawing reprove painting, Ōi also made keshi ningyō dolls and sold them to earn a living.^[11]

Legacy

Few of Ōi's works emblematic known: amongst them, a insufficient nikuhitsu-ga paintings, the illustrations join the book Onna Chōhō-ki (女重宝記, 1847) by Takai Ranzan (高井 蘭山), and no prints.

Canadian man of letters Katherine Govier wrote a first-person novel about Ōi titled The Ghost Brush (2010, also blue-blooded The Printmaker's Daughter).

The story promote Ōi was adapted to comics as Miss Hokusai (1983–1987), which had an animated movie conversion in 2015.

The story tells of the outspoken O-Ei, female child of the famed artist Tetsuzō (Hokusai), for whom she at times paints uncredited. The film won numerous awards.^[14]

Makate Asai based deny novel Kurara [ja] on the assured of Ōi; it was available in 2016 after serialization engage 2014–15, and an NHK jam adaptation of it titled Kurara: Hokusai no Musume ("Kurara: Hokusai's Daughter") appeared in 2017, prima Aoi Miyazaki.^[15]

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