Per British Museum 4/6/2017: Painter, studied in Edo with Ooka Unpo (q.v.) and Sakamoto Konen, then with Hidaka Tetsuo (q.v.) in Nagasaki in 1851; spent over a decade travelling in northern Japan, returned to Edo in 1866; participated in literati circles there and over the following three decades completed various commissions for the imperial household and for domestic and international expositions; in 1893 was appointed an Imperial Household Artist (Teishitsu gigei-in); known especially for his delicate bird-and-flower paintings (kachoga).
Bibliography: Rosina Buckland, 'Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan' (Leiden: Brill, 2013).