NUKATA

The poet princess

額田王

Nukata Okimi, considered Japan’s first lyric poet active during the reigns of the emperors Kogyoku and Jito with poems in the Man’yōshū, Collection of Ten-Thousand Leaves.

This all started as a warm up sketch that I took to far Lol. I’ve always thought Asians where difficult to paint so I avoided it until now.
I really enjoyed working on this, hope to look into more like this.