Japanese painter, Ogura Yuki (1895 – 2000) is known in particular for his bijin-ga, his portraits of women. Teacher Mizoguchi Yuki – she will become Ogura Yuki through marriage – was born on March 1, 1895 in Ōtsu in Shiga prefecture, on the island of Honshū in Japan, near Kyoto. She grew up in th