His father died when he was two years old. He was younger half-brother to
Matsumura Goshun, founder of the
Shijō school, and received his first art lessons from him. He exhibited his works as early as 1796, under the auspices of , a showing which included
calligraphy. Keibun inherited Goshun's studio when he died in 1811. the
Birmingham Museum of Art, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Portland Art Museum, the
Brooklyn Museum, the
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, the
Minneapolis Institute of Art, the
University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the
Honolulu Museum of Art. == References ==