The Hasegawa school was a school

School (discipline)

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 (style) of Japanese painting

Japanese painting

is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of...

 founded in the 16th century by Hasegawa Tōhaku

Hasegawa Tohaku

was a Japanese painter and founder of the Hasegawa school of Japanese painting during the Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japanese history.The man known today as Hasegawa Tōhaku was born in 1539 in Nanao, a town in Noto Province to a noted local family of cloth dyers, although evidence shows that...

 and disappearing around the beginning of the 18th century.

The school painted mostly fusuma

Fusuma

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(sliding doors), was based largely on the style of the Kanō school

Kano school

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, and was centered in Kyoto

Kyoto

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. A relatively small school, the majority of its painters were students of Tōhaku and of various Kanō masters. Tōhaku himself was a student of Kanō Eitoku

Kano Eitoku

was a Japanese painter who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history and one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting...

 and is said to have considered himself the stylistic successor to Sesshū. He painted largely in monochrome ink, in largely Chinese-inspired styles, and is particularly famous for his depictions of monkeys.

Hasegawa artists of note

• Hasegawa Tōhaku
  Hasegawa Tohaku
  was a Japanese painter and founder of the Hasegawa school of Japanese painting during the Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japanese history.The man known today as Hasegawa Tōhaku was born in 1539 in Nanao, a town in Noto Province to a noted local family of cloth dyers, although evidence shows that...
  
   (1539-1610)
• Hasegawa Kyūzō (1568-1593)
• Hasegawa Sōtaku (fl. c. 1650)
• Hasegawa Sakon (fl. c. 1650)
• Hasegawa Sōya (d. 1667)
• Hasegawa Yōshin (d. 1726)