Hanabusa Itchō
1652
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1724
Japanese artist (1652–1724)
Hanabusa Itchō was a Japanese painter born in Osaka, calligrapher, and haiku poet. He originally trained in the Kanō style, under Kanō Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a literati (bunjin). He was also known as Hishikawa Waō and by a number of other art-names.
![Boy Riding Water Buffalo [right of a pair]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Hanabusa_Itchō_-_Boy_Riding_Water_Buffalo_(right_of_a_pair)_-_81.2.17.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Hanabusa_Itchō_-_Boy_Riding_Water_Buffalo_(right_of_a_pair)_-_81.2.17.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
![Boy with Water Buffalo [left of a pair]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Hanabusa_Itchō_-_Boy_with_Water_Buffalo_(left_of_a_pair)_-_81.2.17.1_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Hanabusa_Itchō_-_Boy_with_Water_Buffalo_(left_of_a_pair)_-_81.2.17.1_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
![Scenes from Comic Plays [one of a pair]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Hanabusa_Itchō_-_Scenes_from_Comic_Plays_(one_of_a_pair)_-_74.1.15.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Hanabusa_Itchō_-_Scenes_from_Comic_Plays_(one_of_a_pair)_-_74.1.15.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
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