Hasegawa Tôhaku
Hasegawa Tôhaku (, 1539 - 1610) is a Japanese painter founder of the school of painting of Japanese style Hasegawa-ha () during the era Azuchi-Momoyama.
Tôhaku began its artistic career as a Buddhist painter in his native province of Noto to the Japan. After being itself returned with Kyôto around the 30 years age, it develops its own style of painting with the Indian ink. It passed later to the painting of decorative folding screens, of Fusuma (sliding doors), of walls and ceilings, competing with Kanô Eitoku for the patronage of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
After the death of Eitoku in 1590, Tôhaku remained the only large Master living of its time. He became the official painter of Hideyoshi, then producing the majority of his the larger and more elegant works.
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