A painter from the early Edo period. Born in Kyoto as heir to Kaiho Yusho in his later years. From the Kan’ei era onward, he was also closely patronized by the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, on the recommendation of Lady Kasuga. Distinguishing himself from his father Yusho’s style of Chinese paintings, his decorative and likeable style was characteristic, and he was good at Yamato-e (classical Japanese painting) and genre painting as well. In later years he worked with the Kano school to produce shouheki-ga (paintings on partitions and interior walls), and worked on several including Shodai-bu-no-Ma at the Kyoto Imperial Palace and Chudan-no-Ma at the Nyogo-goten (residence for court ladies). His masterpiece Dragon and Clouds was painted at Rinsho-in, the bodaiji (bodhi temple) of Lady Kasuga.