1753-1806
Ukiyoe painter. Also referred to as Hosho, Sekiyo, Mokuen, and many others as Betsugo. “Ukiyoe Ruiko” tells, “He initially became a pupil of Toriyama Sekien to learn the Kano School painting”, but there is no particular proof in the pieces from his early times which could show he had been affected by Sekien, rather his style was close to Katsukawa School. Afterwards, he could be favored with the friendship of Tsutaya Juzaburo, a publisher, to dedicate many drawings for the comic tanka books with multi-color printed pictures issued by the above mentioned publisher. He opened a new frontier with a realistic expression which gradually made him popular. In approx.1891, he released “Bijin Okubie”, a new style beauty. He used Kirazuri (applying a coat of shiny ground mica on top of a background ) or Kitsubushi (yellow ground) to become an important beauty painter.

Keisai Eisen (1790 - 1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijinga (woodcuts of beautiful women). His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large head pictures"), are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Period (1818–1830).

Kaburaki Kiyokata (1878-1972) was a Japanese-style painter from Tokyo, who was a pupil of Mizuno Toshikata. He established Kinreisha Association with his peer painters like Matsuoka Eikyu and played a central role in the painting world of the Taisho Period.

Komura Settai (1887-1940) was a Japanese-style-painter, who handled many genres of artwork such as duplication of ancient paintings, illustration, stage design.

Born in Kyoto and earned a MFA degree in Japanese Style Painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Okamoto Toko is a Japanese painter who looks straight at the essence of what she is painting, especially the delicacy of women depicted with refinement as if you could feel the temperature, humidity and the air rising from the surface of the work, a mysterious world created by her great artistic senses. It is hard not to be captivated by her intense and amazing works.