Yanagisawa Kien

(b Edo [now Tokyo], 1706; d Koriyama [now in Nara Prefect.], 1758). Japanese painter and calligrapher. With Gion Nankai and Sakaki Hyakusen, he was one of the pioneers of Japanese literati painting (Nanga or Bunjinga; see JAPAN,

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