The Hasegawa school is a painting group that was centered around Tohaku Hasegawa in the Momoyama era. Working from Tohaku’s style, the artists of the school were active in the creation of suiboku-ga ink paintings and also worked on partitions such as sliding doors and panels. Their large and splendid paintings on partitions had free and extended form, and the vivid colors of pigment on gold bases, called kinpeki-shoheiga, were popular amongst local officials. They received commissions from courtiers and samurai families. A wide range of paintings by the Hasegawa school contributed to its reputation equaling that of the Kano school. In Chishaku-in temple in Kyoto a panel painting that was led by Tohaku and his son Kyuzo remains to this day. Up to the early Edo era the names of the painters and their works are known, but from the middle of the era onwards the traces become unclear.