Hanabusa Itchō

Hanabusa Itchō (英 一蝶, 1652 – February 7, 1724) was a Japanese painter born in Osaka, calligrapher, and haiku poet.

He was exiled in 1698, for parodying one of the shōgun's concubines in painting, to the island of Miyake-jima; he would not return until 1710.

[1] That year, in Edo, the artist would formally take the name Hanabusa Itchō.

Most of his paintings depicted typical urban life in Edo, and were approached from the perspective of a literati painter.

[3] Hanabusa studied poetry under the master Matsuo Bashō, and is said to have been an excellent calligrapher as well.