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Sakaki Hyakusen [Sakakibara Shinen; Hassendo, Hoshu, Hyakusen]
(b Nagoya, 1697; d Kyoto, 1752). Japanese painter. Along with GION NANKAI and YANAGISAWA KIEN, he was one of the three leading artists in the first generation of the Nanga or Bunjinga (literati) school of painting in Edo-period (1600–1868) Japan (see JAPAN, §VI, 4(vi)(d)). Born into a family that owned a pharmaceutical shop and was probably of Chinese descent, Hyakusen went to Kyoto when he was about 30 and established himself first as a haiku poet and then as a professional painter. In 1738 he was awarded the honorary priestly title hokkyo (‘Bridge of the Law’) given to artists of merit. In 1751 he published the Gen min gajinko, a record of Chinese painters of the Yuan (1279–1368) and Ming (1368–1644) periods, taken from a single Chinese source, the Pei wen zhai shuhua pu (‘Compilation of painting and calligraphy from the Pei wen studio’; 1708), a publication supervised by Wang Yuanqui (see WANG (ii), (2)). Also in 1751 he executed, at the Suhara House in Tonomine, Nara Prefecture, the earliest set of fusuma (sliding-door) paintings to be done by a Nanga artist.
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