Katsushika Ōi

Katsushika Ōi (, ), also known as or , was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the early 19th century Edo period. She was a daughter of Hokusai from his second wife. Ōi was an accomplished painter who also worked as a production assistant to her father.

Biography

Ōi's birth and death dates are not known, although it is believed that she was born in 1800 and died around 1866. Hokusai married twice; the first marriage produced a son and two daughters, and the second, to a woman named Kotome , resulted in a son and one or two daughters.thumb Kinuta or Beauty Fulling Cloth in the Moonlight (19th century Edo period) by Katsushika ŌiŌi studied her craft under her father's guidance as his apprentice. She also studied under Tsutsumi Torin III (1789–1830) who was a fellow painter and printmaker. This is where she met Minamizawa Tomei (also known as Tsutsumi Tōmei), another one of Tsutsumi Torin III's students, Their marriage did not last long, for only three years later they divorced. It is rumored that their marriage ended as a result of Ōi's criticism of Minamizawa Tomei's work, claiming he was a terrible artist, and laughing at him for it. A Concise Dictionary of Sencha (1848) Aside from drawing and painting, Ōi also made keshi ningyō dolls and sold them to earn a living.

Legacy Few of Ōi's works are known: amongst them, a few nikuhitsu-ga paintings, the illustrations to the book Onna Chōhō-ki (, 1847) by Takai Ranzan , and no prints.

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

The story of Ōi was adapted to comics as Miss Hokusai (1983–1987), which had an animated movie adaptation in 2015. The story tells of the outspoken O-Ei, daughter of the famed artist Tetsuzō (Hokusai), for whom she sometimes paints uncredited. The film won numerous awards.

Makate Asai based her novel on the life of Ōi; it was published in 2016 after serialization in 2014–15, and an NHK television adaptation of it titled Kurara: Hokusai no Musume ("Kurara: Hokusai's Daughter") appeared in 2017, starring Aoi Miyazaki.