Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 128510

Female Samurai Ghost

Artist / 作者: Seien Shima島成園
Date / 年代: 1923
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Taisho / jaodb
Digital record / 画像記録: 388 × 600 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Japanese Art Open Database
Published by / 公開者: 朱雀ハル
Rights / 権利: No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記: Japanese Art Open Database

Catalog note / 解説

Shin Hanga: Female Samurai Ghost Artist: Shima Seien Format: Dai Oban tate-e: 18" x 11.25" Subject: In the snow the magnificent design of a female ghost holding the sword with which she had disembowled herself. Seien is best known for this superb design and another from the same set 'The Departed Spirit of a Courtesan'.The woman artist, Shima Narie, was born in Sakai, in Osaka prefecture; eventually her family settled in Osaka. Narie's early period of study was entirely selfmotivated, and at the age of eighteen she first displayed her work in the sixth Bunten exhibition. At this show she received an honorable mention, certainly an accolade for a young woman artist during this time. Therafte…

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