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Hashimoto Gahō

Hashimoto Gahō was a Japanese painter (1835–1908). He was born in Edo and died in Tokyo Prefecture.

Also recorded as Togansai · Gahō · Hashimoto Masakuni · Gahō Hashimoto

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"White Clouds and Autumn Leaves." The first prize of virtuosity at the third "domestic industrial exposition".

Hashimoto Gahō （1835-1908） · The University Art Museum-Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music · Public domain

Career and activity

Training under Kanō Shōsen'in is recorded. Kanzan Shimomura, Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Shunsō are recorded as having studied under Hashimoto Gahō.

Employment is recorded with Kawagoe Domain, Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and Ministry of Education, Science Sports and Culture. Positions recorded include Imperial Household Artist.

Work by Hashimoto Gahō is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Seattle Art Museum and Harvard Art Museums.

His work is associated with Kanō school and Nihonga.

He was employed by Kawagoe Domain, Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Ministry of Education, Science Sports and Culture and Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts. Recorded position is Imperial Household Artist. He belonged to Kangakai and Nihon Bijutsuin.

Identity

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Hashimoto Gahō is recorded as painter.

Dated record

Life and career

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  1. 1835

    Life

    Hashimoto Gahō was born in 1835 at Edo.

  2. 1887

    Institution

    Landscape, dated 1887, held by Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  3. 1887

    Institution

    Lake and Causeway (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

  4. 1887

    Institution

    Landscape (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

  5. 1905

    Institution

    No-asobi (Playing in the Field), dated 1905, held by Seattle Art Museum.

  6. 1908

    Life

    Hashimoto Gahō died in 1908 at Tokyo Prefecture.

The full dated record · 6 entries

  1. 1835

    Hashimoto Gahō was born in 1835 at Edo.

  2. 1887

    Landscape, dated 1887, held by Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  3. 1887

    Lake and Causeway (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

  4. 1887

    Landscape (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

  5. 1905

    No-asobi (Playing in the Field), dated 1905, held by Seattle Art Museum.

  6. 1908

    Hashimoto Gahō died in 1908 at Tokyo Prefecture.

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Places

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  • Edo

    Birth place

  • Tokyo Prefecture

    Death place

Catalogued output

Catalogued works

Their recorded dates run from 1887 to 1905.

  • Autumn Landscape in Moonlight

    Cincinnati Art Museum

  • The Second Ode on the Red Cliff

    Yale University Art Gallery

  • Mount Horai

    Yale University Art Gallery

  • No-asobi (Playing in the Field)

    1905 · Seattle Art Museum

  • Lake and Causeway

    1887 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Landscape

    1887 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Rapids and Fall of a River

    1890 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Boy with Cow at the River's Edge

    1890 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Lake and Mountains

    1887 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Snow Landscape

    1887 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Regent Hojo Tokiyori in Disguise

    Arthur M. Sackler Museum

  • The Immortal Zhang Guolao Releasing His Mule from a Gourd

    Minneapolis Institute of Art

Literature

Literature

  • Facsimile of synopsis of SEAC propaganda leaflet Gunjin Gahō, The Japanese in War and Peace, 1942-48, 2011

  • Hayashi Kazan (1583-1657) and Hayashi Gahō (1618-80): Founders of Modern Historical Scholarship, Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945:, 2007

Catalogued output

Scholarly footprint

A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Primary material

Documents and archives

authority file

reference work

scholarly publication

Citations

References

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A further 2 witnesses are held back from this article because the person or object named in them is not yet resolved to this record. They are kept, not discarded, and return once the identity is established.

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He trained under Kanō Shōsen'in.

Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

Those registers additionally record the forms Tagukuni, Shoēn, Sentarō, 千太郎, Togansai, Hashimoto, Hashimoto Gahō and Kokkisai.

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.

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