This work of fusion moves beyond memoir to become a juggling act of reality and imagination. The narrative travels through melded panoramas of past and present,

Oei is the daughter of the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Long consigned to a minor role as gloomy sidekick, she is barely a footnote in the historical reco

A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally

Integrates the vital contributions of women as printmakers, printsellers and print publishers into the history of eighteenth-century art.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.