I read The Printmaker’s Daughter because TW told me it was good – interesting. And it was, but it started so slowly that I thought maybe this was another of those weird TW recommendations – the kind that I never quite understand. But no, it was good. Very interesting.
Oi was a real person. Her father, Hokusai, was also a real person – maybe you’ve heard of him? There really is some confusion as to which works were really his – and which were done by someone else – maybe his daughter, Oi? That’s what The Printmaker’s Daughter is about. A fictional tale of what may have been the lives of both Edo painters in the 1800s.