Chigusa Kitani

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

Life

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.
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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 [District, Osaka|Minamikawachi] of Osaka at the age of 51.

Works

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.