Obelisk

Katsushika Ōi, or Eijo, as she was known to her family, was the daughter of the famous Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, and spent her life working with him as a tempestuous, obsessively creative duo. The pair were fluent in many mediums and styles, but this work is pure Ōi—a dramatic and carefully observed study of the interplay between light and shadow. This attention to light was rare in traditional Edo artwork. read more