The Printmaker’s Daughter
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Harper Perennial, 2011
As a child, Oei joined her father, Hokusai, the printmaker, in his studio. In a time when a woman was a possession of her men folk, Oei laboured to bring her father’s visions to life. Her home of Edo (Tokyo) was the largest city in the world, teeming with peasants, warriors, townsmen, merchants, and nobles. Always broke, living beyond convention, dodging the censors and devoted to the old man, Oei left hundreds of beautiful pictures. But she – and her work – are lost to history.
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As a child, Oei joined her father, Hokusai, the printmaker, in his studio. In a time when a woman was a possession of her men folk, Oei laboured to bring her father’s visions to life. Her home of Edo (Tokyo) was the largest city in the world, teeming with peasants, warriors, townsmen, merchants, and nobles. Always broke, living beyond convention, dodging the censors and devoted to the old man, Oei left hundreds of beautiful pictures. But she - and her work – are lost to history.
Or are they?
Now, 150 years after the death of Edo’s great eccentrics, scholars examine the thousands of Hokusai paintings in museums from New York to London, Amsterdam to Tokyo. Some are forgeries; many are the work of students. But the authorship of the greatest works, painted in the last ten years of Hokusai’s life, is a mystery.
This novel combines international research, scholarly detective work, and imagination. It brings a great, lost woman artist to life—and exposes the process by which she was subtracted from history.
View a video of Katherine talking about her novel The Ghost Brush (aka the Printmaker's Daughter), with shots of artworks and her travels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxz9FV8WJA
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“Katherine Govier takes us on a moving and fascinating quest as she explores the vanished world of nineteenth-century Japan and the submerged stories of its women. Her telling of that of Oei, the daughter of the great printmaker Hokusai, and perhaps
his superior as an artist, is at once a work of painstaking historical research and a bold leap of the imagination.” -Margaret Macmillan
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“From the hothouse ferment of art studios, bordellos, and Kabuki theater to the tonic countryside, Govier’s spectacularly detailed, eventful, and emotionally stormy novel is populated by vivid characters and charged with searing insights into Japanese history…” – Starred review, Booklist