Katsushika Ōi

Katsushika Ōi (葛飾 応為)
Born c. 1800 (exact date unknown)
Edo (present-day Tokyo), Japan
Died c. 1866 (exact date unknown)
Nationality Japanese
Known for Painting, Ukiyo-e
Notable work

Three Women Playing Musical Instruments (c. 1818-1844)[1] Operating on Guanyu's Arm (c. 1818-1854)[2] Mount Fuji through a bamboo forest (date unknown)[3]

Beauty Fulling Cloth in the Moonlight (date unknown)[4]
In this Japanese name, the family name is Katsushika.
Kinuta or Beauty Fulling Cloth in the Moonlight by Katsushika Oi
Kinuta or Beauty Fulling Cloth in the Moonlight (19th century Edo period) by Katsushika Oi

Katsushika Ōi (葛飾 応為, c. 1800-1866 (exact dates of birth and death unknown)), also known as Sakae (栄), was a Japanese Ukiyo-e artist of the late 19th century Edo period. Her mother was the second wife of Hokusai. Not only did Ōi work as a production assistant to her father, but she was also an accomplished painter in her own right.[5][6] There are multiple theories as to the origin of her name, including Ei (her given name), Ei-jo ("jo" meaning "woman" or "daughter" in Japanese), O-i (literally "loyal to itsu"), and O-Ei (お栄, honorary 'O' as a prefix for womens' names in 19th century Japan).

Life

It is not known whether a biography exists of Ōi. She is believed to be born around 1800, as one of the daughters of Hokusai by his second wife. In her immediate family, she is believed to have a younger brother Sakujiro and a sister Tatsu, and from Hokusai's first wife, an older step-brother and two step-sisters (yet another account only indicates a total of four Hokusai children). Ōi was married to Minamisawa Tomei, and they studied Ukiyo-e under the tutelage of Tsutsumi Torin. She divorced Minamisawa to assist her father in his old age as he developed palsy. She is the only daughter of Hokusai who is said to have been by her father's side when he died in 1849. After her father's death, she retreated to Asakusa, but accounts are not clear where she lived until her death around 1866.[7]

Works

Ōi is known to have excelled at handwriting and in "Bijin-ga", or paintings of beautiful women. The following is a selected list of her works.

She has also been credited as an illustrator for the following books.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Three Women Playing Musical Instruments". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Operating on Guanyu's Arm". The Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Mount Fuji through a bamboo forest". Blouin Art Sales Index. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Late Kinuta-da beautiful view". Tokyo National Museum.
  5. 1 2 Ōi, Katsushika (1829). Senzai Hyakunin isshu yamato-kotobuki 千歳百人 一首倭寿.
  6. ↑ Machotka, Ewa (2009). Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity: Hokusai's Hyakunin Isshu. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-90-5201-482-1.
  7. ↑ Govier, Katherine (2011). The Printmaker's Daughter: a novel (First ed.). New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-200036-1.
  8. ↑ ""Courtesans Showing Themselves to the Strollers through the Grille" by Katsushika Oi". Ota Memorial Museum of Art. February 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  9. ↑ Kobayashi Tadashi and Julie Nelson Davis. "The Floating World in Light and Shadow: Ukiyo-e Paintings by Hokusai's Daughter Oi." in Carpenter, J. T. et al (eds). Hokusai and his age: Ukiyo-e painting, printmaking and book illustration in late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing. 2005.
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