“At leisure in a lakeside grove in autumn”
Hine Taizan Japanese
Not on view
A scholar sits in his hermitage overlooking a lake in autumn. The setting, though not identified, evokes Chinese precedents, and is characteristic of Hine Taizan’s landscape paintings, done in a controlled, precise manner.
Taizan was born in Hine village in Izumi province (present-day Izumi-sano City in Osaka), arrived in Kyoto in 1837 at age 24, and remained active in the capital until his death at age 57 in 1869. Early on he studied with the Kano school painter Tōda Eiun 桃田英雲in Osaka. Some sources say that Nukina Kaioku became his teacher of calligraphy and painting for a while. He also became acquainted with the merchant and scholar of classical Japanese literature Satoi Fukyu里井浮丘 who lived in his hometown of Izumi. Fukyu had a large collection of paintings and calligraphy, and also through Fukyu was introduced to the important Nanga painter Okada Hankō, with whom he studied.
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