Artist –  IKUTA Kachojo (生田 花朝女) (1889 – 1978), was one of the rare Japanese female painters. She lived from Meiji to Showa era. She received an extensive classical and elaborate artistic training.

Personal life - IKUTA Kachojo was born as IKUTA Minoru (生 田 稔) in Kaminomiya-cho, Tennoji-ward, Osaka to IKUTA Nansui (生田 南水), a Japanese scholar. She studied haiku under her father, Chinese studies, and Japanese classical studies. After graduating from the elementary school attached to Osaka Daiichi Normal School, she entered Shijo school (Shijō-ha, 四条派). The Shijo school is a major faction in the Japanese painting world, it's fame continuing until present times.

In 1912 IKUTA Kachojo entered Tatehiko Suga's (菅 楯彦) school and  studied Yamato-e (大和絵) and Yusoku Kojitsu (有職故実). Yamato-e are a multiple sequence of scenes, often with historical reference, full of events and people and is therefore similar in structure to Japanese sentence structure. Yusoku kojitsu (有職故実) refers to aristocratic knowledge and history, events, laws, regulations, systems, manners, customs, government posts, ceremonies, and costumes of the Imperial Court, court nobles, and knowledge about samurai, based on ancient precedents. Those experts who were familiar with such knowledge were called 'yusoku'.

In 1921 she was enrolled at the painting school and Japanese art organization Byakuyosha (白耀社) of the renowned ukiyo-e artist, Japanese-style painter, and printmaker KITANO Tsunetomi (北野恒富).

Under the guidance of Byakuyosha, IKUTA Kachojo won her first prize in 1925 at the 6th Teiten Exhibition. The Teiten (aka "Bunten", "Shinbunten", "Nitten") is is Japan's largest general art exhibition, featured by the government, and is still exhibiting. Numerous prizes folowed through IKUTA Kachojo's lifetime.

She died in her 88th year on March 29 in 1978 at her home in Tezukayama , Osaka.

Aliases - Her birth name was IKUTA Katchjo (生田 花朝女), also named IKUTA Minoru (生田稔, みのり). She named herself Hanacho (花朝, 'Flower Morning'), and later Hanachojo (花朝女, 'Women of the Flower Morning').

Disciples - none known