Hanabusa Itcho

Hanabusa Itcho ( , 1652 – February 7, 1724) was a Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet. He originally trained in the Kano style, under Kano Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a literati (bunjin ). He was also known as Hishikawa Wao and by a number of other art-names .