OKUHARA Seiko

According to the inscription, this work was painted at Shusui Sodo, meaning that it was created after he sold his house in Tokyo due to land readjustment and retired to Kamikawakami, Naritamura (present-day Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture) in 1891. The river is probably an image of the Tone River, which flowed nearby.
She often uses medium-thick brushes, and her work conveys a free and unrestrained feeling. Seiko Okuhara and Shopin Noguchi were said to be the two greatest female Southern painters of the Meiji period.