I think she might need glasses... or maybe this is some clever pun and the guy is some kind of japanese important character

Apologies for posting a comment after 16 years, but in the game, she offers to paint a portrait of Riki, just for it to end up being a classical Japanese novelist (I cannot recall whom and I'm unsure if it was Nitobe Inazou). Anego is quite the prankster after all. :P