Fuyuko Matsui on Her Work and the Supernatural

Japanese artist and pop icon Fuyuko Matsui explores the haunted, interconnected realms of traditional and modern aesthetics. As one of the few women to have attained top training and mastery of traditional Japanese painting (nihonga) techniques in Japan, Matsui also cites centuriesold artistic influences, such as the iconoclastic eighteenthcentury painter Soga Shohhaku and the fifteenthcentury painter Soga Jasoku. Having grown up in a house that has been in her family for fourteen generations, Matsui pro