Toyohiko Okamoto (豊彦岡本) (artist 1773 – 1845)

Chōsinsai ( - 澄神斎)
Kōson ( - 葒村)
Rikyō ( - 鯉喬)
Shiba (nickname - 司馬)
Shigen (nickname - 子彦)
Shume (nickname - 主馬)
Tangaku Sanjin ( - 丹岳山人)

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Biography:

Okamoto Toyohiko was a Shijō painter. He was born in Bitchū province (now Okayama Pref.) in 1773, where he was a pupil of a nanga artist, Kuroda Ryōzan. It is not known for how long he studied there, but it had a lasting influence on his style. After that he moved to Kyoto to the studio of Matsumura Goshun.

He was best known for his naturalistic, very atmospheric landscapes, but he was also an excellent painter of figures, bamboo and kachō-e. After Goshun’s death, Okamoto Toyohiko and Matsumura Keibun successfully continued and secured the Shijō school of painting. They were the most prominent Shijō painters of Kyoto. Their most famous pupils undoubtedly were Tanaka Nikka, Shiokawa Bunrin and Shibata Zeshin. Toyohiko died in Kyoto in 1845.

References: Araki, Tsune (ed), Dai Nihon shôga meika taikan, Tokyo 1975 (1934), p. 2662-2668 Roberts, Laurance P., A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, New York, 1976, p. 186.