Chigusa Kitani

was a Japanese painter and painting teacher in Taishō and Shōwa Japan.

Life Born Chigusa Kitani at Kita-ku, Osaka , the center of the Osaka (the second largest metropolitan area in Japan), in 1895 under the name . While studying at Shimizudani Girls' High School, She studied Bird-and-flower painting under who is a famous painter of the . She moved to Tokyo in 1913 (Taishō 2) to study under .

After returning to Osaka, She became a pupil of and . Kitano is famous painter who draws ( . In 1919, She started studying under in Kyoto.

She trained in Seattle, Washington, in the United States for two years from the age of 13, and her work was exhibited throughout Japan. In 1920, she married , a researcher on Chikamatsu Monzaemon (dramatist of jōruri). In the same year, she established a painting school and at her home in Osaka. She aimed to nurture, instruct and improve the status of female painters.

She died in 1947 (Shōwa 22) in the Minamikawachi of Osaka at the age of 51.

Works In 1915, Chigusa Kitani, at the age of 20, was selected for the first as and for the 9th as .This Hari-Kuyō is a work depicting a Geisha girl in Kyoto.

She showed her works at the exhibitions such as , and Yachigusakai-ten (Yachigusakai's Exhibition).

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