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[[File:Princemisato-kanoshunko.jpg|right|thumb|400px|[[Misato Chotei|Prince Misato Shô Ki Chôtei]], as depicted by Shunko in a [[1710]] [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyu embassy]] scroll, in the collection of the [[British Museum]]]]
*''Died: [[1726]]/3/20''
*''Died: [[1726]]/3/20''
*''Other Names'': 岡澤宇右衛門 ''(Okazawa Uemon)'', 元珍 ''(Genchin)''
*''Other Names'': 岡澤宇右衛門 ''(Okazawa Uemon)'', 元珍 ''(Genchin)''
*''Japanese'': [[狩野]]春湖 ''(Kanou Shunko)''
*''Japanese'': [[狩野]]春湖 ''(Kanou Shunko)''
Kanô Shunko was a [[Kano school|Kanô school]] painter and student of [[Kano Shunsetsu|Kanô Shunsetsu]].
Kanô Shunko was a [[Kano school|Kanô school]] painter and founding head of the Inaribashi branch of the school.
A native of [[Shinano province]], he came to serve as guardian for Shunsetsu's son [[Kano Shunsho|Kanô Shunshô]]<!--春笑-->. He was permitted to take the name "Kanô," and began his own branch family, the Inari-bashi Kanô. Working at times for shogunal advisor [[Arai Hakuseki]],<ref>British Museum gallery label.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20702845859/in/photostream/]</ref> he produced a number of official paintings for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]; among these was a ''[[Ryukyuan embassy|Ryûkyû Edo Nobori]]'' handscroll depicting the [[1710]] Ryukyuan embassy procession to/in [[Edo]], today in the collection of the British Museum.[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=788262&partid=1&output=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F1205%2F!%2F%2F!%2Fambassador%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database%2Fadvanced_search.aspx¤tPage=2&numpages=10]
A native of [[Shinano province]], he came to serve as guardian for Shunsetsu's son [[Kano Shunsho|Kanô Shunshô]]<!--春笑-->. Originally known as Okazawa Uemon Genchin, he studied under [[Kano Shunun|Kanô Shun'un Nobuyuki]].<!--狩野春雲信之--><ref name=yoko>Yokoyama Manabu, ''Ryûkyûkoku shisetsu tôjô gyôretsu emaki wo yomu'', in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'' (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), 168-169.</ref> He was eventually permitted to take the name "Kanô," and began his own branch family, the Inari-bashi Kanô. Shunko was also employed for a time as official court painter to [[Tokugawa Ienobu|Tokugawa Tsunatoyo]], lord of [[Kofu han|Kôfu han]] (Tsunatoyo would later become Shogun under the name Tokugawa Ienobu), and it was while in that position, in [[1694]], that he was first ordered to produce a series of works by [[Arai Hakuseki]]. This series was a collection of depictions of [[bird and flower painting|birds and flowers]] and other objects, commissioned on the occasion of Hakuseki having been invited to give a formal lecture to Tsunatoyo. The collection, known as ''shikyôzu'' ("Images of Poems and Sutras") is today in the collection of the [[Imperial Household Agency]].<ref name=yoko/>
Continuing to work for Hakuseki in later years,<ref>British Museum gallery label.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20702845859/in/photostream/]</ref> he produced a number of official paintings for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. Among these were a ''[[Ryukyuan embassy|Ryûkyû Edo Nobori]]'' handscroll depicting the [[1710]] Ryukyuan embassy procession to/in [[Edo]], today in the collection of the British Museum.[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=788262&partid=1&output=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F1205%2F!%2F%2F!%2Fambassador%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database%2Fadvanced_search.aspx¤tPage=2&numpages=10], and a [[byobu|folding screen]] painting depicting the [[1711]] [[Korean embassy to Edo]].<ref name=yoko/>
Shunko died in [[1726]] and was succeeded as head of the Inaribashi Kanô by [[Kano Shunga|Kanô Shunga]]<!--狩野春賀-->; the school would end with Shunga, however.<ref>Yokoyama, 190n9.</ref>
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