As the Edo period was nearing an end, the conventions restricting female artists persisted. Shoen Uemura fought to open doors. © Uemura Shoen ‘Firefly’, 1913 and ‘Mother and Child’, 1934 – Wikimedia Commons TDR A woman of the people who was appointed court painter, Shoen Uemura (1875-1949) spent her […]
She fought hard to make a place for women artists… not by clamoring or complaining, but by doing exquisite art that could not be ignored.
