Hashimoto Gaho
【4 Hanging scrolls of Flowers and Birds in the Four Seasons】
Title
4 Hanging scrolls of Flowers and Birds in the Four Seasons
Detail
Materials : ink on paper
wooden boxed (signed by Kawai Gyokudo / double)
Size : W 42 × H 115.5 cm (Each image) ・ W 56.5 × H 213.5 cm (Each mount)
Appeared in "Auction catalogue of Unno Shomin's Collection and two anonymous landlords' Collection" (December 1916) and "The 100 year history of Japanese art dealer from 1907 to 2006"
certification by TOOCFA(Toobi Certification for Fine Arts)
certification by Terasaki Kogyo
Artist History
Hashimoto Gaho (1835-1908) was a Japanese painter from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. He was born in Edo. After the Meiji Restoration, under the direction of Ernest Francisco Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin, he tried to innovate traditional Japanese painting by incorporating Western painting techniques into the Kano school of painting. He also worked hard to establish the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and became a professor there. He later founded the Nihon Bijutsuin. He nurtured artists who represent modern Japanese art.