The Ghost Brush
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The legendary printmaker Hokusai created Japans best-known image The Great Wavebut the story of his daughter Oei comes to life for the first time in this vivid historical novel combining scholarly detective work and a daring narrative that shines fresh light on issues of authorship duty and the tender and inscrutable bond between a father and daughter.Recounting the story of her life Oei plunges us into the colorful world of 19th-century Edo in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets artists consort with warriors and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative fomentall despite a repressive political regime. Oei and Hokusai live amongst actors novelists tattoo artists and prostitutes evading the Shogunates spies. Her father journeys to gather visual references for his evolving masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Wielding her brush Oei rejects the typical pursuit of domesticity in favor of dedication to the arts. She defies all expectations of womanhood. All but onea dutiful daughter to the last she will obey the will of her eccentric father the man who created her and who ultimately will rob her of her future.
