Kakizaki Hakyo
Biography
Kakizaki Hakyō was born in Matsumae Castle in 1764, the fifth son of the Matsumae Domain daimyō Matsumae Sugehiro. The following year he was adopted as successor by karō Kakizaki Hiromasa. At a young age he travelled to Edo, where he studied under Takebe Ayatari and Sō Shiseki, learning the style of the Nanpin school. In the aftermath of the Menashi–Kunashir rebellion, he painted the Ishū Retsuzō, portraits of twelve Ainu chiefs who had sided with the Matsumae Domain; this series was presented to Emperor Kōkaku. In 1791 he journeyed to Kyōto, where he studied under Maruyama Ōkyo. His style was influenced by his exchanges with the painters and literati of the Maruyama-Shijō school and he became friends with Minagawa Kien, Murase Kōtei, and in particular Rikunyo, with whom he hosted a moon-viewing party for Kan Chazan, attended also by Ban Kōkei. From 1807, when the Matsumae clan were transferred to the Yanagawa Domain, based around Yanagawa in Mutsu Province, Kakizaki Hakyō as karō worked for their reinstatement. In 1826, after falling ill in Edo, he died in his home town of Matsumae.
