Gaho Hashimoto1835~1908 橋本雅邦

Hashimoto Gaho (real name: Nagasato) was a Japanese-style painter active from the late Edo to Meiji period and a master who contributed greatly to the establishment of modern nihonga. Born in Edo in 1835 as the son of Hashimoto Yokuho, an official painter of the Kawagoe domain, he was trained in the Kano school by his father from the age of five and formally entered the Kobikicho Kano studio under Kano Osanobu at age twelve. Together with Kano Hogai, he served as a bridge between the “early modern” and “modern” eras of Japanese painting, building on Kano-school techniques while incorporating Western methods such as linear perspective. As a teacher at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, he trained the so-called “Four Heavenly Kings of Gaho”—Shimomura Kanzan, Yokoyama Taikan, Hishida Shunso, and Saigo Kogetsu—as well as Kawai Gyokudo and many others. He died in 1908.