Bijin with Koto in Spring — 春の京都美人
by Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944)

Original caretaker of this artwork: Ross Walker Collection (Ohmi Gallery)

	Artist:	Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) — 水野秀方
	Title:	Bijin with Koto in Spring — 春の京都美人
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	circa 1900-1920
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Self
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Self
	Medium (first edition):	Scroll/Makuri roll
	Medium (this edition):	Scroll/Makuri roll
	Format (first edition):	Long scroll
	Format (this edition):	Long scroll
	DB artwork code:	47658
	Notes (first edition)?:	Beautifully executed painting of a Kyoto Bijin. Scroll size is 55 x 182cm. See here on Ohmi Gallery. ⽔野秀⽅ 美⼈図 落款在 ⾁筆 絹本 掛軸 ⽇本画 軸装 共箱 サイズは、 軸装：縦182横55センチ程です。 作品：縦114横41センチ程です。
	Notes (this edition)?:
	Artist Bio:	Mizuno Hidekata (nee Ichikawa, 1875-1944) was the wife of Mizuno Toshikata. Mizuno Hidekata (given name: Kaya) was born into the family of a low-ranking former retainer of the shogunate in Hongo Morikawa-chō in 1875. After starting her studies with Mizuno Toshikata in 1900, she showed Bijin (A Beauty) at the joint Japan Painting Association and Japan Art Institute Exhibition as early as 1902. The painting was awarded an honorable mention of the first rank. For the next ten years, she also worked on illustrations and frontispiece (kuchi-e) for Shōjo Sekai, Jogaku Sekai, and other magazines. In 1905, she married Mizuno Toshikata, who had lost his first wife to illness. With the household taking up her time, she gradually stopped painting major works. Hidekata died aged seventy in 1944. Hidekata also painted the genre scenes that Ikeda Terukata, Shōen, Kiyokata, and other students of Toshikata produced. Here she has depicted a mother and child in the Edo period. [from Link] 水野 秀方（みずの ひでかた、明治8年〈1875年〉 - 昭和19年〈1944年〉）とは、明治時代から昭和時代にかけての女性浮世絵師。 来歴 水野年方の門人。本姓は市川。後に年方の妻となって水野姓を名乗り秀方と号す。 作画期は明治後期から昭和にかけてで、主に女性らしい肉筆浮世絵の美人画や挿絵を描いた。 明治40年（1907年）12月に博文館から刊行された『幼年画報』第2巻16号の「オ祖父サン」という挿絵などを、市川秀方の名義で描いている。[wiki] 女性でありながら年方門下の塾頭となり、年方の没後も塾を経営し、秀方自身も画名を上げ各種の画会において受賞を果たした。享年70。