Hine Taizan
【An Egret in a Lotus Pond】
Title
An Egret in a Lotus Pond
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 40 × H 113 cm (Image) ・ W 54 × H 197 cm (Mount)
Painted in 1862 at the age of 50.
Condition: slightly creased
Artist History
Hine Taizan (1813-1869) was a painter of the Southern School in the late Edo period. He first studied under Momota Eiun of the Tosa School in Kishiwada, then went to Osaka to study Southern painting under Okada Hankou. He later moved to Kyoto to study under Nukina Kaioku.