Description

Recounting the tale of her life, Oei plunges us in to the vibrant world of nineteenth century Edo, by which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, players consort with stars, and the arts thrive within an unparalleled second of creative trauma. Hokusai and oei reside among novelists, authors, tattoo artists, and hookers, evading the agents of the shogunate because they focus on Hokusai’s numerous images and pictures. Carrying her comb, rejecting domesticity in support of commitment to the arts, Oei defies all objectives of womanhood—all but one. A dutiful child for the last, she'll follow the will of her eccentric father, the person who produced her and who, finally, will deprive her of her devote history.