Kusumi Morikage

Kusumi Morikage was a Japanese painter of the Edo period. He came from Kaga Province, the centre of the lands of the Maeda clan. He fell afoul of his teacher, Kanō Tan'yū, and became the Maeda clan's official painter. His sympathy for farmers and the poor people of the Edo period is reflected in his works.

His daughter, Kiyohara Yukinobu (1643-1682), was also an artist, one of the few female painters of the Edo period.

Text courtesy of Wikipedia, 2023