Fumiko Hori

was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style.

Biography Hori was born to a scholarly family in Hirakawacho, in Tokyo, Japan, in 1918. In 1940, she graduated from Women's School of Fine Arts (now Joshibi University of Art and Design). She trained in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style.

In 1960, Hori's husband, a diplomat, died of tuberculosis. Hori decided to travel the world, leaving Japan for the first time and visiting Egypt, Europe, the United States and Mexico.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Hori created illustrations for magazines and children's books, She also taught painting at Tama Art University.

Hori continued to paint into her final years. the earliest piece was a self-portrait from 1930, and the most recent piece was Red-Flowering Japanese Apricot, painted in 2016 when Hori was 98 years old.