The Printmaker's Daughter
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First published as The ghost brush in Canada in 2010.
Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei and Hokusai live among writers, novelists, tattoo artists, and prostitutes, evading the spies of the repressive shogunate as they work on Hokusai's countless paintings and prints. Wielding her brush, rejecting domesticity in favor of dedication to the arts, Oei defies all expectations of womanhood--all but one. A dutiful daughter to the last, she will obey the will of her eccentric father, the man who created her and who, ultimately, will rob her of her place in history.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 501 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062000361
0062000365
SUBJECTS
Katsushika, Ōi, -- 19th cent. -- Fiction.
Katsushika, Hokusai, -- 1760-1849 -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.