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Kitani Chigusa

Japanese painter, 1895-1947

Member of the Yoshioka family, she began using her married name for exhibitions after 1919. She studied in Tokyo with Ikeda Shōen, a female painter. In 1915 she entered the studio of Kitano Tsunetomi and began exhibiting in the Bunten exhibitions. Her husband was a scholar of kabuki plays, and this may have informed her work. Chigusa founded her own painting group and encouraged many other female painters.

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