Hasegawa tohaku biography sample

Japanese painter (1539–1610)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Hasegawa.

Hasegawa Tōhaku (長谷川 等伯, 1539 – March 19, 1610) was a Japanese painter and founder of the Hasegawa school.^[2]

He is considered one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603), and he is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants (both registered National Treasures), or the paintings in walls and sliding doors at Chishaku-in, attributed to him and his son (also National Treasures).

Biography

Hasegawa Tōhaku, born Okumura Tōhaku (奥村 等伯)^[3] in 1539 in Nanao,^[1] a town in Noto Province (in the vicinity of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture) to a noted local family of cloth dyers, although evidence shows that Tōhaku's original family name was Okumura and that he was adopted into the Hasegawa family.^[3]

Tōhaku started his artistic career as a painter of Buddhist pain