10 Facts About Nagasawa Rosetsu

Nagasawa Rosetsu was a Japanese painter during the Edo period.

Nagasawa Rosetsu was born to the family of a low-ranking samurai.

Nagasawa Rosetsu moved to Kyoto in 1781, where he became a student of Maruyama Okyo.

Nagasawa Rosetsu was married and had four children, all of whom died in childhood.

Nagasawa Rosetsu was said to have been poisoned, although others claim he committed suicide.

He, his children, and his pupil are buried in a Kyoto cemetery belonging to the Pure Land Sect, although Nagasawa Rosetsu was a lay student of Zen.

Finally, they had a falling out and Nagasawa Rosetsu left the school.

Nagasawa Rosetsu's paintings fall into two very clearly defined categories, with no halfway stage in between.

We are inclined to think of the first type as early and even untypical, but in fact Nagasawa Rosetsu seems to have executed carefully finished paintings at all stages of his career.

Nagasawa Rosetsu's work was extensively forged in the Meiji period.