Tôhaku was born at Nanao in [[Noto province]], and adopted into a Hasegawa family of cloth-dyers. After painting a number of Buddhist-influenced works in his native Noto, and the death of his adoptive parents, he moved to Kyoto around [[1571]] and took up residence at Kyôgôin, a sub-temple of [[Honpoji|Honpôji]]. | Tôhaku was born at Nanao in [[Noto province]], and adopted into a Hasegawa family of cloth-dyers. After painting a number of Buddhist-influenced works in his native Noto, and the death of his adoptive parents, he moved to Kyoto around [[1571]] and took up residence at Kyôgôin, a sub-temple of [[Honpoji|Honpôji]]. |