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Original name Matajiro, also called Ikeno Taiga. Painter of the mid-Tokugawa period (1603–1867) who, together with Yosa Buson, established the bunjin-ga, or literati, style of painting, which survives to this day in Japan. (The style had originated in China and was first called Nan-ga, or the Southern School, of Chinese art; it was closely related to scholarship and literature.)
(Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005)