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Unkoku Togan (1547-1618)
JAPAN, Saga, Fujitsu; Muromachi to Momoyama period (1336–1615) |
| Unkoku Togan, born Naoharu, was a painter and the founder of the Unkoku school. He painted solely for the Mori clan, and first learned the art from Shoei Kano of the Kano school, being also greatly influenced by the works of Eitoku Kano. Later, he learned directly under Sesshu Toyo and was commissioned by Terumoto Mori to copy one of Sesshu's landscape scroll paintings. He claimed to be the 3rd generation of Sesshu, naming himself Togan |
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