Display room in Yoshiwara at Night

Katsushika Ōi, also known as Ei, was a Japanese Ukiyo-e artist of the late 19th century Edo period. She was a daughter of the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. Around 1824, Ōi married the artist Minamisawa Tōmei, but they did not get along and she found him to be a comically poor artist. They divorced, and after she returned to her father’s home, she never remarried. In a testimony about Ōi, a pupil of Hokusai’s described her as having an eccentric personality, like her father, and a charitable disposition. Ōi is known to have excelled at handwriting and in creating bijin-ga, paintings of beautiful women.

Katsushika Ōi is a great female artist who should be more widely known!

P.S. Here you can see Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints with snow and winter (if you missed it this year)!  ; )

P.P.S. Feeling uneasy? Here are 10 art masterpieces to calm your anxiety <3