Image: The Strong Oi Pouring Sake

Description: A portrait by Hokusai of his daughter Ōi? and Fan Kuai. Presumably the title is a pun on her art name, which was Sakae. However, it is totally different from the Japanese original title. The Japanese original title means "Combined pictures of the brave people from Japan and China, Ōiko and Fan Kuai". The original title does not have the character of Sake and her given name is not Sakae but Ei. There is no fact that Hokusai called her Sakae. Ōiko(大井子) was the Japanese legendary strong woman from "Kokon Chomonjū". Ōiko was also drawn by other ukiyoe artists such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi Tsukioka. Hokusai drew Ōiko to "Hokusai Manga", too. Ōiko was commonly used for the motif of ukiyoe prints. Ei used her artist name "Ōi (應為 / 応為)" for the first time in 1847 and more than 25 years passed since this painting was published. The speculation would be distorted by the people who don't know the history and the culture about East Asia.
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