About Noguchi Shōhin
Lived 1847 – 1917 (aged 69). Noguchi Shōhin was a Japanese painter.
(25 February 1847 – 17 February 1917) was a Japanese painter.
Biography Shohin was born in Ōsaka Prefecture in 1847. She studied bird-and-flower and landscape painting with the artist in Kyoto. Her paintings were bought by the Japanese Imperial family and in 1904 she was appointed an Imperial Household Artist, an honour reserved for the most distinguished artists. She was a friend of the statesman Kido Takayoshi and she and Okuhara Seiko enjoyed his patronage. Kido and the two of them would create gassaku, or collaborative paintings.
Her daughters Iku and Shokei also became artists.
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Japanese painter (1847-1917)
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Noguchi Shōhin was born on 25 February 1847 in Osaka.
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Noguchi Shōhin died on 17 February 1917.
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