Kano Masanobu

Kanō Masanobu (狩野正信; 1434? - August 21530?, Kyoto) was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and the founder of the Kanō school of painting.

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1434 - August 2 - 1530 - Kyoto - Ashikaga shogunate - Kanō school

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The Kano school was a teaching of painting that maintained dominance over 400 years until the Muromachi period, Meiji.

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Muromachi period - Meiji

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Masanobu Kano served the Muromachi government as an official painter.

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Kanō was influenced by the priest-painter Tensho Shubun and worked in the suiboku style, but he added a Japanese touch to the style with more defined forms. Very few of his works survive.

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Tensho Shubun - Suiboku - Japanese

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