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Mixed media original on A2 Canvas paper
Acrylic and charcoal on A2 canvas paper
She describes her works as looking "as if they are breathing
it is said that she was disturbed by a large crane that screeched and landed close to her
Nakano Takeko C06 - Teal Mixed media original on A2Depicted here with her Naginata (a Japanese polearm), Nakano Takeko (1847 1868) was a female Samurai figure. Born into a family of the Aizu clan, she was born in Edo, the name of Tokyo. Developing a warrior's soul at an early age, Nakano was thoroughly trained in the martial and literary arts. She was adopted by her teacher Akaoka Daisuke and worked with her adoptive father as a martial arts instructor during the 1860s. In January 1868, Boshin's war