This is Uemura Shōen

Uemura Shōen (上村 松園, April 23, 1875 – August 27, 1949) was the also called of an important artiste in Meiji, Taishō and in advance Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her genuine name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijin-ga paintings of beautiful women in the nihonga style, although she produced numerous works upon historical themes and established subjects. Shōen is considered a major innovator in the bijin-ga genre despite the fact she often still used it to depict the time-honored beauty standards of women. Bijin-ga gained criticism during the Taisho period while Shōen worked due to its dearth of improvement to reflect the more radical statuses of women in Japan. During bijin-ga’s conception in the Tokugawa, or Edo, period, women were regarded as demean class citizens and the genre often reflected this implication onto its female subjects. Within the Taisho era, women had made several advancements into the Japanese workforce, and artistry specifically was becoming more popular external of pass grow old for the elite, which opened pretentiousness for Shōen’s success. Shōen expected many awards and forms of confession during her lifetime within Japan, being the first female recipient of the Order of Culture award, as capably as innate hired as the Imperial Household’s attributed artist, which had in the past only employed one further official woman in the position. In 1949 she died of cancer just a year after receiving the Order of Culture Award.