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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Okamoto Toyohiko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | A leading painter of the Shijo school in Kyoto (see JAPAN, §VI, 4(viii)), Toyohiko was born into a family of sake merchants. |
 | | He began his artistic career in Bitchu, studying literati (Nanga or Bunjinga) painting (see JAPAN, §VI, 4(vi)(d)) with Kuroda Ryozan (?17571814). |
 | | The growing reputation of MaruyamaShijo painting drew him to Kyoto, where he entered the studio of MATSUMURA GOSHUN. |
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