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I hope to find more information on Katsushika Ōi's personal life, and on her technique on painting. Not only she is the production assistant to her father, the famous Hokusai, but also remark herself being an independent painter. I'll look more into stories about the time when she spends the most by living with her father, helped him paint and created her own works.

Bibliography of sources that I might use

• Govier, Katherine. The Printmaker's Daughter : A Novel. 1st ed. ed., New York, Harper Perennial, 2011.

• Fister, Pat, and Fumiko Y. Yamamoto. Japanese Women Artists, 1600-1900. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1988. Print.

• “History Special 3: About O-Ei Aka Katsushika Oi.” Production I.G Work List, Production I.G, www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s08_/001279.html.

Works

Biography

Aside from painting and draw book illustrations, Ōi also makes keshi ningyō dolls and sell it to earn a living.

Ōi not only shared the artistic talent of her father, but also his characteristic of a free spirit. They both do not care about the material wealth and keeping up with housework. Ōi and her father paint all day, neither one cooked so they would go to a nearby market and buy prepared food. When done with eating, they do not clean up and just leave the waste scattered around their place. After a while when it became too insufferable to live, they would leave and find another place to live.

Katherine Govier, the author of "The Printmaker's Daughter" came in contact with a letter written by Ōi herself, probably around 1843. It was shown to her by a man named Kubota. "He reads it to the translator, who repeats it in English. And then her voice comes out of the silence, over that long, long distance: 'We have never met,' she says, 'but I trust that you are well...'”

Works

Illustrated Handbook for Women (1847) - Woodblock printed book. Ravicz Collection.