Chigusa Kitani

• Name — Chigusa Kitani • Birth Name — Ei Yoshioka • Born — 17 February 1895 • Birthplace — Kita-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture • Died — 24 January 1947 • Place of death — Minamikawachi District, Osaka • Education — Shimizudani Girls' High School • Known for — Painting • Style — "beautiful person picture" • Movement — Nihonga

Born Chigusa Kitani at Kita-ku, Osaka:ja:堂島, the center of the Osaka (the second largest metropolitan area in Japan), in 1895 under the name Ei Yoshioka. While studying at Shimizudani Girls' High School, She studied Bird-and-flower painting under Chokujō Fukada who is a famous painter of the Shijō school. She moved to Tokyo in 1913 (Taishō 2) to study under:ja:池田蕉園. • Illustration — frontispieces of books - Lithography After returning to Osaka, She became a pupil of Tsunetomi Kitano and:ja:野田九浦. Kitano is famous painter who draws ("beautiful person picture", is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art. In 1919, She started studying under Keigetsu Kikuchi in Kyoto. She trained in Seattle, Washington, in the United States for two years from the age of 13, and her work was exhibited throughout Japan. In 1920, she married Hōgin Kitani, a researcher on Chikamatsu Monzaemon (dramatist of jōruri). In the same year, she established a painting school Yachigusa-kai and Chigusa-kai at her home in Osaka. She aimed to nurture, instruct and improve the status of female painters. • Illustration — With her painting Care for and Remnants the eyebrows She died in 1947 (Shōwa 22) in the Minamikawachi of Osaka at the age of 51.

In 1915, Chigusa Kitani, at the age of 20, was selected for the first Osaka Fine Arts Exhibition as Shin-kyo and for the 9th 文部省美術展覧会 (文展, Bunten) as "Memorial ceremony Festival of Broken Needles".This Hari-Kuyō is a work depicting a Geisha girl in Kyoto. She showed her works at the exhibitions such as Imperial Fine Arts Academy Exhibition, "Exhibition for private school by Keigetsu Kikuchi" and Yachigusakai-ten (Yachigusakai's Exhibition).

• Illustration — Care for and Remnants the eyebrows • Illustration — Distant country • Illustration — Ochiyo at "double love suicide" from "Complete works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon" by Hōgin Kitani • Illustration — Small boat for playing Jōruri music • Illustration — frontispieces of books - Lithography • Illustration — Kuchi-e (Lithography)