Maeda Gyokuei 前田玉英

前田玉英 Maeda Gyokuei
One of the leading female painters of the Kyoto art world in the Meiji era. She entered the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting and studied Nanshu-ga. Later switched to the Shijo School and after graduation studied under Mochizuki Gyokusen. She became a teacher at the Kyoto Prefectural First Higher Girls' School and opened a private school on the side. One of the female painters from Kyoto who exhibited at the Paris Expo.