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Woman Waiting for the Moon to Rise1944

Por

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Wind

Autumn

Spring of Kuruwa 1936

Reading 1940

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Early fall 1943

Beauty in Spring

Evening

Beauty and plum

Firefly 1949

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Flame 1918Tokyo National Museum

Beautiful Woman Reading a Book (1941) Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Fragrance of Spring(Japanese garb),

1940

1942

Spr

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1942

Whispering beauties

Title, Date and Location unknown

Spring breeze, 1940 Kuwayama Museum of Art, Nagoya

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New firefly Yamatane

Museum of Art

Waiting for the MoonKyoto Municipal Museum of Art

Madame Kusunoki Masahige 1944

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Spring and Autumn 1930

Picture of Makeup 1913

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Young leaves

Snowstorm

Making a Wish for a Long Life on ChrysanthemumsTokyo Fuji Art Museum

Evening Coolness

Mother and child 1934The National Museum of Modern Art, TokyoP

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Evening 1941

Autumn attire

Autumn garb 1936

Autumn leaves

Yang Guifei Shohaku Art Museum

Yuanyang topknot 1935

Snow

Firefly 1944The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Bride 1935The Flowers of LifeKyoto Municipal Museum of Art

Flower Basket1915

Large flakes of snow 1944

Snow, 1940

Sound of the Tabor, 1940

Sound of Tsuzumi (Tabor or Drum), 1940

Beauty with Tabor (Drum)

Japanese woman looking in a mirror

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Catching Fireflies, 1932

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Figure of beauty in Kyoto

Firefly

Daughter Miyuki 1914

Garden of Snow (1948)

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fly Y

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Folding Paper Cranes, 1940 OrizuruYamatane Museum of Art

A Fine Day 1941Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art

Shower in late autumn

Spring day

Spring attire 1936Yamatane Museum of Art

Spring brise

Kate

The Loyal Ronin Blindfold GameSpring and Autumn

Snowstorm

Paint brush 1942Yamatane Museum of Art

The Sound of Insects Brings Lady to Peek Outside

Noriyuki late dance figure

Hana 1935

Momijigari

Spring 1935

Figure Noriyuki beauty 1937Kita-no-Mandokoro, wife of Regency

Fairy Lady, Chu Lian Xiang,  c. 1924

Portrait of a Tang Beauty 1924

 Looking up at the Rainbow, 1932 pair of two-fold screens    each 182.0 x 181.0The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

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Man dance 1938

Shizuka Gozen, shirabyoshi dancer

Jo-no-Mai, (Noh Dance Prelude)The University Art Museum - Tokyo

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Shōen was born in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, as the second daughter of a tea merchant. She was born two months after the death of her father and thus grew up together with her mother and aunts in an all female household. Her mother’s tea shop attracted a refined, cultured clientele for the art of Japanese tea ceremony. As a child, Shōen drew pictures and exhibited considerable skill at drawing human figures. She became obsessed with the ukiyo-e works of Hokusai. Her mother supported her decision to pursue an artistic career.In Japan female artist Shoen Uemura is a highly respected person and a kind of household name. People owe her respect for her courage to fight for the rights of women in Japan and for her achievements as a great artist.In 1941 Uemura Shoen became a member of the Imperial Art Academy. And in 1948 she became the first woman to receive the Order of Cultural Merit. Like several others of her contemporary Japanese fellow artists, she would most probably have made an International career if the time-schedule of her life had been a different one. Without access to the large North American market, no Japanese artist can make an International career.

Uemura Shōen (1875 –1949) was the pseudonym of an important female artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijinga paintings of beautiful women in the nihonga style, although she also produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects