was a Japanese imperial princess and artist. She was the eighth daughter of
Emperor Go-Mizunoo
, posthumously honored as , was the 108th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional List of Emperors of Japan, order of succession. Go-Mizunoo's reign spanned the years from 1611 through 1629, and he was the first emperor to reign entirely d ...
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After her father's death in 1680, she shaved her head and took the name Genyo, then entered .
She founded Linkyuji Temple.
The
Kosetsu Memorial Museum held a special exhibition on Japanese female artists, in which her work was also exhibited.
See also
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Kiyohara Yukinobu
Kiyohara Yukinobu (清原雪信, 1643–1682) was a Japanese painter and one of the foremost women identified with the Kanō school. Her father Kusumi Morikage was also a painter and her mother Kuniko was the niece of his longtime teacher and pat ...
(1643–82)
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Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727/8–84)
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Ema Saikō (1787–1861)
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1634 births
1727 deaths
17th-century Japanese artists
Daughters of Japanese emperors
Buddhist clergy of the Edo period
Japanese women artists
18th-century Japanese artists
17th-century Japanese women
18th-century Japanese women
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