Background
Gyokuran Ike was born in Kyoto.
池 玉
Gyokuran Ike was born in Kyoto.
Studied painting under her husband, Taiga Ikeno and under Rikyo Yanagi.
He became an excellent painter of landscapes, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums. Later she studied walca poetry of Reizei school.
She was a devoted wife and their happy family life was proverbial. She was to survive her husband by eight years.