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*''Born: [[1754]]''
*''Died: [[1819]]''
*''Other Names'': 増山正賢 ''(Masuyama Masakata)'', 玉園 ''(Gyokuen)'', 蕉亭 ''(Shôtei)'', 石顛道人 ''(Sekiten dôjin)'', 巣丘隠人 ''(Suoka injin)''
*''Japanese'': 増山雪斎 ''(Masuyama Sessai)''
Masuyama Masakata, lord of [[Ise Nagashima han]], was also known as a [[bird and flower paintings|birds-and-flowers]] painter of the [[Nanpin school]] and ''[[honsogaku|honsôgakusha]]'' (scholar of flora and fauna); he went by a number of [[art-name]]s, of which Sessai is the one by which he is most known.
Sessai was actively engaged in [[literati]] circles, counting such figures as [[Ota Nanpo|Ôta Nanpo]] and [[Kimura Kenkado|Kimura Kenkadô]] among his mentors. Enamored of [[Qing Dynasty]] Chinese styles of painting, he studied after the style of [[Shen Nanpin]] and produced many birds-and-flowers paintings, using the painting-from-life technique known as ''[[shasei]]''.
He died in [[1819]], at the age of 66.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site at [[Kan'ei-ji]].
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