Background
Kan-ichi Araki was born in 1827.
Kan-ichi Araki was born in 1827.
Adopted as son by Kankai Araki in his infancy and studied under his tutorship. Seigai Sakurama, too, was his teacher.
After the Meiji Restoration (1868), he had the honor of painting on cedarboard screens in the Imperial Palace. Left a lot of masterpieces.