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*''Japanese'': 狩野派 ''(Kanou ha)''

*''Japanese'': [[狩野]]派 ''(Kanou ha)''

The Kanô school was a leading school (style) of painting in the 16th century, through the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]], and by virtue of becoming court painters (''goyô eshi'') to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], was the leading official/orthodox painting school of the [[Edo period]]. A great many Edo period painters, from just about every genre and school, had at least some training under a Kanô master; as such, it could be said that the Kanô school had a profound impact upon Edo period painting as a whole, high and low, informing many artists' work, and for some artists serving as the orthodoxy against which they resisted, experimenting or otherwise setting off in new directions.

The Kanô school was a leading school (style) of painting in the 16th century, through the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]], and by virtue of becoming court painters (''goyô eshi'') to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], was the leading official/orthodox painting school of the [[Edo period]]. A great many Edo period painters, from just about every genre and school, had at least some training under a Kanô master; as such, it could be said that the Kanô school had a profound impact upon Edo period painting as a whole, high and low, informing many artists' work, and for some artists serving as the orthodoxy against which they resisted, experimenting or otherwise setting off in new directions.

Eitoku died in 1590 and was succeeded as head of the school by his son [[Kano Mitsunobu|Kanô Mitsunobu]] (1561-1608), though his pupil & adopted son [[Kano Sanraku|Kanô Sanraku]] would also be a significant artist of this next generation of the school's history.<ref name=mason255/>

Eitoku died in 1590 and was succeeded as head of the school by his son [[Kano Mitsunobu|Kanô Mitsunobu]] (1561-1608), though his pupil & adopted son [[Kano Sanraku|Kanô Sanraku]] would also be a significant artist of this next generation of the school's history.<ref name=mason255/>

[[Kano Tanyu|Kanô Tan'yû]] was named an official court painter to the Tokugawa shogunate in [[1617]], marking the beginning of the school's official relationship with the shogunate. Tan'yû was easily one of the most significant artists of the early decades of the Edo period.

[[Kano Tanyu|Kanô Tan'yû]] was named an official court painter to the Tokugawa shogunate in [[1617]], marking the beginning of the school's official relationship with the shogunate. Tan'yû was easily one of the most significant artists of the early decades of the Edo period. As the core Kanô school relocated with Tan'yû to Edo, Kanô Sanraku became the leading Kanô artist still active in Kyoto, where he continued to produce commissions for the Imperial Court and the [[Toyotomi clan]], among other patrons.<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 37.; Mason, 258-259.</ref>

[[Kano Sadanobu|Kanô Sadanobu]] died in [[1623]], and was succeeded as head of the school by [[Kano Yasunobu|Kanô Yasunobu]].

Several heads of the school passed away in rapid succession in the early 1600s, with [[Kano Takanobu|Kanô Takanobu]] being succeeded by [[Kano Naonobu|Kanô Naonobu]] in [[1618]], and then [[Kano Sadanobu|Kanô Sadanobu]] by [[Kano Yasunobu|Kanô Yasunobu]] in [[1623]].

The popular/commoner art form ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' ("pictures of the floating world") developed out of Kanô, [[Tosa school|Tosa]], and other influences over the course of the 17th century, coming into its own by the end of that century. Many of the earliest greatest ''ukiyo-e'' artists, such as [[Iwasa Matabei]] and [[Hishikawa Moronobu]], had at least some background in Kanô school training.

The popular/commoner art form ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' ("pictures of the floating world") developed out of Kanô, [[Tosa school|Tosa]], and other influences over the course of the 17th century, coming into its own by the end of that century. Many of the earliest greatest ''ukiyo-e'' artists, such as [[Iwasa Matabei]] and [[Hishikawa Moronobu]], had at least some background in Kanô school training.

[[Kano Hogai|Kanô Hôgai]] is often cited as the last great Kanô painter. The son of [[Kano Seiko|Kanô Seikô]], a court painter for the lord of [[Chofu han|Chôfu domain]] in [[Shimonoseki]], Hôgai later moved to [[Tokyo]], where he produced a number of works on commission for the shogunate, including a ceiling painting for the Ôhiroma, the main audience hall of [[Edo castle]], following the building's reconstruction after a fire. In the 1880s, at the encouragement and patronage of [[Ernest Fenollosa]] and [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]], Hôgai became one of the first leading ''[[Nihonga]]'' painters, combining Kanô techniques, aesthetics, and themes & motifs with Western ones to create and promote a new form of "neo-traditional" and "national" Japanese painting. While aspects of the Kanô tradition remain very much embedded in ''Nihonga'' painting today, perhaps as early as [[1900]], even in the comparatively conservative Kyoto art world, artists and works were no longer being described as belonging to specific Edo period schools.<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%8B%A9%E9%87%8E%E8%8A%B3%E5%B4%96 Kanô Hôgai]," ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' 朝日日本歴史人物事典, Asahi Shimbunsha.; Conant, Ellen (ed.). ''Nihonga: Transcending the Past''. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995. </ref>

[[Kano Hogai|Kanô Hôgai]] (1828-1888) is often cited as the last great Kanô painter. The son of [[Kano Seiko|Kanô Seikô]], a court painter for the lord of [[Chofu han|Chôfu domain]] in [[Shimonoseki]], Hôgai later moved to [[Tokyo]], where he produced a number of works on commission for the shogunate, including a ceiling painting for the Ôhiroma, the main audience hall of [[Edo castle]], following the building's reconstruction after a fire. In the 1880s, at the encouragement and patronage of [[Ernest Fenollosa]] and [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]], Hôgai became one of the first leading ''[[Nihonga]]'' painters, combining Kanô techniques, aesthetics, and themes & motifs with Western ones to create and promote a new form of "neo-traditional" and "national" Japanese painting. While aspects of the Kanô tradition remain very much embedded in ''Nihonga'' painting today, perhaps as early as [[1900]], even in the comparatively conservative Kyoto art world, artists and works were no longer being described as belonging to specific Edo period schools.<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%8B%A9%E9%87%8E%E8%8A%B3%E5%B4%96 Kanô Hôgai]," ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' 朝日日本歴史人物事典, Asahi Shimbunsha.; Conant, Ellen (ed.). ''Nihonga: Transcending the Past''. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995. </ref>

==Selected Notable Kanô artists==

==Selected Notable Kanô artists==

*[[Kano Mitsunobu|Kanô Mitsunobu]] (1561-1608)

*[[Kano Mitsunobu|Kanô Mitsunobu]] (1561-1608)

*[[Kano Takanobu|Kanô Takanobu]] (1571-1618)

*[[Kano Takanobu|Kanô Takanobu]] (1571-1618)

*[[Kano Sanraku|Kanô Sanraku]] (1559-1635)

*[[Kano Sanraku|Kanô Sanraku]] (1559-1635)

*[[Kano Sansetsu|Kanô Sansetsu]] (d. 1651)

*[[Kano Sansetsu|Kanô Sansetsu]] (d. 1651)

*[[Kano Tanyu|Kanô Tan'yû]]

*[[Kano Tanyu|Kanô Tan'yû]]

*[[Kano Masunobu|Kanô Masunobu]]

*[[Kano Masunobu|Kanô Masunobu]]

*[[Kano Shunko|Kanô Shunko]] (d. 1726)

*[[Kano Shunko|Kanô Shunko]] (d. 1726)

*[[Kano Tanshin|Kanô Tanshin]] (1653-1718)

*[[Kano Michinobu|Kanô Michinobu]]

*[[Kano Osanobu|Kanô Seisen'in]] (Osanobu)

*[[Kano Osanobu|Kanô Seisen'in]] (Osanobu)

*[[Kano Tadanobu|Kanô Shôsen'in Tadanobu]]

*[[Kano Tadanobu|Kanô Shôsen'in Tadanobu]]