Okada Beisanjin

Japanese painter
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Also known as: Hikobē
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Also called:
Hikobē
Born:
1744, Ōsaka, Japan
Died:
Oct. 15, 1820, Ōsaka (aged 76)
Movement / Style:
Nan-ga

Okada Beisanjin (born 1744, Ōsaka, Japan—died Oct. 15, 1820, Ōsaka) was a Japanese painter who worked in the bunjin-ga, or literati, style that originated in China and appealed to intellectuals. The son of a prosperous rice merchant, Okada enjoyed reading and was fond of the books of paintings that had been collected by his family for generations. He came under the influence of the painter-musician Uragami Gyokudō and other artists who were family friends. Later he became a retainer of a lord and was his official Confucian teacher. He excelled in painting landscapes in the bunjin-ga style that he mastered ...(100 of 127 words)