Hasegawa school

The Hasegawa school (長谷川派, -ha) was a school (style) of Japanese painting founded in the 16th century by Hasegawa Tōhaku and disappeared around the beginning of the 18th century.

Left panel of the Pine Trees screen (Shōrin-zu byōbu, 松林図 屏風) by the Japanese artist Hasegawa Tōhaku; Tokyo National Museum.

The school painted mostly fusuma (sliding doors), was based largely on the style of the Kanō school, and was centered in Kyoto. A relatively small school, the majority of its painters were students of Tōhaku and of various Kanō masters. Tōhaku himself was a student of Kanō Eitoku and is said to have considered himself the stylistic successor to Sesshū. He painted largely in monochrome ink, in largely Chinese-inspired styles, and is particularly famous for his depictions of monkeys.

Hasegawa artists of note

• Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539–1610)
• Hasegawa Kyūzō (1568–1593)
• Hasegawa Sōtaku (fl. c. 1650)
• Hasegawa Sakon (fl. c. 1650)
• Hasegawa Sōya (d. 1667)
• Hasegawa Yōshin (d. 1726)

References

• Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia". Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.