Art ehibition of Tohaku Hasegawa

I went to the art exhibition of "Thohaku Hasegawa" at kyoto national museum in Kyoto.
This year marks the 400th memorial of Hasegawa Tohaku.
He is one of the greatest painters in Japan.
He was born in Nanao city in Ishikawa prefecture.
Tohaku began his career painting Buddist works.
In his thirties, he moved to the then-capital of Kyoto and expanded his works to include portraits, landscapes, and birds and flowers. He used his technique of painting, whilee at other times wielding a bold brush.
Later, he received commisions from the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi and tea master Sen no rikyu.
They orderd Tohaku to paint significant works.
They made him a famous painter.
His famous painting titled "famous painter.
His famous painting titled "Pine Trees" was so great.
"Pine Trees"was painted by using only Japanese black ink.
He represented fog laiden pine trees in a woody foreset, using only black ink. I felt like I was in the quiet deep foggy forest.
I found he was a great painter.

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