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[[Image:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Pine Forest, one of a pair of folding screens. Tokyo National Museum.]]
* ''Birth: [[1539]]''
* ''Birth: [[1539]]''
* ''Death: [[1610]]''
* ''Death: [[1610]]''
* ''Other name: Hôkyô''
* ''Other name: Hôkyô''
* ''Distinction: Painter''
* ''Distinction: Painter''
* ''Japanese'': 長谷川等伯 ''(Hasegawa Touhaku)''
Tôhaku was born at Nanao in [[Noto province]]. After painting a number of Buddhist-influenced works in his native Noto, he moved to Kyoto around [[1571]] and studied the Kanô school of painting. He produced a volume of work over the next 30 years and in 1603 was given the title Hôkyô. He died on March 20 1610.
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]].
[[Image:Takeda shingen.gif|frame|"Portrait of Takeda Shingen"]]
Tôhaku's paintings were done in a number of styles, from his earlier buddhist efforts to his later, black-ink genpitsu tai productions. His most famous works include 'Picture of Pine Forest', 'Picture of Monkey in Dead Trees', and 'Picture of Flower and Trees'. Tôhaku is attributed with the "Portrait of [[Takeda Shingen]]" (which has long defined the popular perception of Shingen) but recently scholars have wondered if the subject of that work was in fact a [[Hatakeyama clan|Hatakeyama]] lord.
While in Kyoto, he studied under [[Kano Shoei|Kanô Shôei]], head of the [[Kanô school]] of painting, and came to know the great tea master [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]], by whose introduction he was granted access to the collection of paintings at [[Daitokuji]]. The Daitokuji collection included a number of works by Japanese masters of the [[Muromachi period]], as well as those of Chinese painters of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Works by Mu Qi, whose triptych of a crane, a monkey, and a white-robed [[Kannon]] is particularly famous, are noted as being especially influential in Tôhaku's works.
Though he worked together with members of the Kanô school in producing works for the [[Jurakudai]] in [[1587]], three years later, [[Kano Eitoku|Kanô Eitoku]] worked to block Tôhaku from taking part in the restoration of the [[Kyoto Gosho|Imperial Palace]]. Eitoku's death allowed Tôhaku's popularity and prominence to grow;
He produced a volume of work over the next thirty years and in 1603 was given the title Hôkyô.
[[Image:Takeda shingen.gif|frame|"Portrait of Takeda Shingen"|right]]
Tôhaku's paintings were done in a number of styles, from his earlier Buddhist efforts to his later, monochrome ink ''[[genpitsu tai]]'' productions. His most famous works include 'Picture of Pine Forest', 'Picture of Monkey in Dead Trees', and 'Picture of Flower and Trees'. A famous portrait of [[Takeda Shingen]] which has long defined the popular perception of Shingen is attributed to Tôhaku, though recently scholars have wondered if the subject of that work was in fact a [[Hatakeyama clan|Hatakeyama]] lord.
He is equally well-known and celebrated for his monochrome ''kanga''-inspired works, and for his blue-and-gold Kanô-inspired ''yamato-e'' style works.
Tôhaku died on March 20, 1610.
==References==
==References==
* Initial text from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
*Initial text from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
*Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. pp259-263.
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