Ikeda Shōen
- Nihonga
Ikeda Shōen was a Japanese artist born in 1886. She studied under Mizuno Toshikata, who gave her the art name Shōen. She later received instruction from Kawai Gyokudō and Suzuki Kason. Her work included paintings and illustrations for magazines such as Girl Students' World. She exhibited with the Society for Refinement of National Painting and at Bunten, where she won nine awards.
Biography
She married the painter Ikeda Terukata in 1911. During her career, she produced bijin-ga, which were paintings of women in the Japanese style using water-base pigment on silk. Her work also included nishiki-e prints, such as the series Young Beauties in Layered Mist. She died of tuberculosis in 1917.
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