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The couple were renowned for their eccentricity. They created art together, mutually influencing each other, and were also known to play music together for leisure, as equals. This was highly unusual in a country where women were still widely considered inferior to men. It is noted that Gyokuran did
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Gyokuran painted folding screens and sliding doors, handheld scrolls, hanging scrolls, and fan paintings. "It was exceptionally rare for women in 18th century Japan to be painters," according to Anne d’Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gyokuran and her husband Taiga dedicated
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in Kyoto. Gyokuran created folding screens, handheld scrolls, hanging scrolls, and fan paintings. She also often painted small scenes, on which she inscribed her poems in calligraphy.
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painter Yanagisawa Kien, who was a regular at her mother's teahouse. It is likely that he was the one to introduce her to Ike no Taiga, who became her teacher.
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Work by Gyokuran was included in a pair of linked exhibitions held in Tokyo in 2015, titled "Splendid Japanese Women Artists in the Edo Period" at the
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themselves to making art, living on little money, and sometimes collaborating on art pieces. She lived with Taiga in a small studio next to the
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Gyokuran was born of a decade long affair between her mother, Yuri, and a high ranking retainer of the ruling Tokugawa
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poetry, but excelled in painting and Calligraphy. Gyokuran began to learn to paint at an early age under famous
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In 1910, her verses were printed alongside a woodblock print of the Matsuya teahouse at the
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Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting
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Uemura Shoen and Splendid Japanese Women Artists” at the Yamatane Museum of Art
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Ike Gyokuran, Fan mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper.
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Gyokuran, meaning "Jewel Waves," most likely by her painting teacher
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Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
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Gyokuran's husband Taiga taught her the painting style of the
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Tokuyama Gyokuran
Japanese name
surname

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ike no Taiga
Bunjinga
Kyoto
shogun
art-name
Yanagisawa Kien
Ike no Taiga
waka
literati
nanga
waka

shave her eyebrows, as was customary

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gion shrine
Gion Shrine
Jidai Matsuri
Kosetsu Memorial Museum
Uemura Shoen and Splendid Japanese Women Artists” at the Yamatane Museum of Art



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