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Kaiho Yusho
(b Omi Province [now Shiga Prefect.], 1533; d 1615). Japanese painter. He was the fifth son of a samurai retainer of the Asai clan, the rulers of Omi Province on the shores of Lake Biwa. In his youth he entered Tofukuji, an important Zen temple in Kyoto, serving first as a page and later as a lay priest, reportedly with some reluctance. His service at Tofukuji did, however, spare him the fate that befell the rest of his family in 1573, when the Asai clan was destroyed by Oda Nobunaga.
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