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文麟 塩川

also known asChikusai, Kachikusai, Kibutsu Dojin

painter

Bunrin Shiokawa was a Japanese painter.

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Background

Bunrin Shiokawa was born in 1808 in Kyoto, Japan. He was the son of a samurai.

Education

At his father’s death he moved to relatives in Fushimi, where he started to study painting with a local artist called Toryō at the age of fourteen.

Later, he was a pupil of Okamoto Toyohiko and also studied nanga style painting and western style painting.

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Career

Little is known of his early career until the 1850’s when he appears as an established artist working in the Imperial Palace. Unfortunately, many of his works from this period can no longer be traced.

During the chaotic years before the Meiji restoration Bunrin stayed away from the Kyoto scene and spent a lot of time studying the collections of the many temples and shrines in the Kyoto region.

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