Shiokawa Bunrin

Place: Kyoto

Born: 1808

Death: 1877

Biography:

Shiokawa Bunrin was born in Kyoto in 1808 as the son of a samurai. At his father’s death he moved to relatives in Fushimi, where he began his studies in painting. He studied under Okamoto Toyohiko of the Shijō school. Bunrin became painter in attendance to the princely Yasui family, and was in general patronised by sections of the Kyoto nobility. He was a pupil of Okamoto Toyohiko, a leading painter of the Shijō school based in Kyoto. During his career he was also known as Shion. He died in Kyoto in 1877.