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Also Known As Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Flourished 1600 - c.1639

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Sōtatsu: Genji monogatari: Miotsukushi
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Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
Ogata Kōrin: Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin
Japanese artist
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Hasegawa Tōhaku
Japanese painter
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Kanō Motonobu
Japanese painter
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Kanō Tan’yū
Japanese painter
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Unkoku Tōgan
Japanese painter
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Kaihō Yūshō
Japanese painter
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Kanō Eitoku
Japanese painter
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Takuma Shōga, original name Takuma Tamemoto
Japanese painter
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Tokiwa Mitsunaga
Japanese painter
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Tosa Mitsunobu
Japanese painter
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Toba Sōjō
Japanese artist and priest
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Kanō Naonobu
Japanese painter
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Kanō Sanraku
Japanese painter
Hishikawa Moronobu: Scene in the Yoshiwara
Hishikawa Moronobu
Japanese printmaker
Sakai Hōitsu: One Hundred Paintings by Kōrin (Kōrin hyakuzu)
Sakai Hōitsu
Japanese artist
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Soga Chokuan
Japanese painter
Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Xia Gui
Chinese artist
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Wang Hui
Chinese painter

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