Background
Takamitsu Awadaguchi was born in 1410. He was the third son of Mitsuaki Tosa, he lived in Awadaguchi in Kyoto. Called himself Mimbu Hogen or Awadaguchi Hogen, Hogen being a high rank in Buddhist priesthood.
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Takamitsu Awadaguchi
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Career
He helped produce the Yūzū nembutsu engi housed in the Seiryō-ji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. He followed the Yamato-e school. Most of the works he produced were based and inspired by his Buddhist beliefs. He was also a court painter who painted five volumes of the Ashibiki-e scroll paintings during the Ōei period.
