Chigusa Kitani

Chigusa Kitani was a Japanese Nihonga painter and painting teacher in Taishō and Shōwa Japan.

Life

Born Chigusa Kitani at Kita-ku, Osaka Dōjima, the center of the Osaka, 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 to study under Shōen Ikeda.
After returning to Osaka, She became a pupil of Tsunetomi Kitano and Kyuho Noda. Kitano is famous painter who draws. 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.
She died in 1947 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 Ministry of Education Art Fine Arts Exhibition as Hari-Kuyō.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, Kikuchijuku-ten and Yachigusakai-ten.