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Pine Trees Hasegawa Tōhaku, 1580
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Pine Trees

Hasegawa Tōhaku · 1580

Why it's great

Misty pine trees appear and fade into the fog on a pair of folding screens, painted in black ink. Hasegawa Tōhaku painted it in the late 1500s, and it is one of the best-known paintings in Japan.

Where to see it

📍 Tokyo National MuseumUeno-kōen, Japan

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About the artist

Hasegawa Tōhaku

1539–1610 · born in Nanao · died in Edo

Hasegawa Tōhaku was a Japanese painter born in 1539. He painted giant folding screens and sliding doors for temples and warlords, and is best known for his misty ink painting of pine trees. He died in 1610.

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