Hine Taizan
Japanese, 1813-1869
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Hine Taizan was a Japanese painter and calligrapher and a well-known figure in Bunjinga circles in the Kansai region.
Born in Minato, Nakanoshō Village, Hine County, Izumi Province (now Osaka Prefecture). His name (na) was Morinaga, and his adult name (azana) was Shōnen, and others. First studied under the Kishiwada painter Momota Eiun. Befriended Satoi Fukyū, a wealthy merchant from his hometown of Minato, and copied Ming and Qing paintings from the family's collection. With the support of Fukyū, he studied Confucianism, calligraphy and painting under Okada Hankō in Osaka and Nukina Kaioku in Kyoto. Thereafter, active as a literati painter mainly in Kyoto, and became friendly with imperial loyalists such as Yanagawa Seigan, Rai Mikisaburō, Fujimoto Tesseki, and Nakanishi Kōseki. Died in Kyoto. In his younger years, produced many delicate landscape and bird-and-flower paintings with careful brushwork, but in his later years produced landscape paintings with rough brushwork and simple compositions. (Takamatsu)