Background
Tamechika Okada was born in 1823. His other family name was Reizei. Son of Nagachika Kano, he was adopted into the Okada family.
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Tamechika Okada studied Yamatoe (Japanese adaptation of Chinese painting, which originated in the Heian Period and was perfected m the Kamakura Period and which branched out into the Tosa and Kano schools in the Muromachi Period) by himself when young, before he became a disciple of Kazue Uklta.
Career
Okada Tamechika was appointed Shikibu Shojo (a high rank in the Court's Ceremony Bureau). Although he endeavored to bring about a compromise between the Court and the Shogunate, he was blacklisted as pro-Shogunate by Loyalist ronin. To escape ssassination, he fled to the Kogawadera Temple in Kii Province (Wakayama Prefecture) and became a priest assuming the name of Shinrembo Koa. He later hid himself in Sakai (near Osaka) and Tambaichi (Nara Prefecture). In May, 1864. he was tricked and murdered by ronin.
