Kanô Shunko was a Kanô school painter and student of Kanô Shunsetsu.
A native of Shinano province, he came to serve as guardian for Shunsetsu's son Kanô Shunshô. 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,[1] he produced a number of official paintings for the Tokugawa shogunate; among these was a Ryûkyû Edo Nobori handscroll depicting the 1710 Ryukyuan embassy procession to/in Edo, today in the collection of the British Museum.[2]
References
- "Kanô Shunko." Digital-ban Nihon jinmei daijiten デジタル版 日本人名大辞典. Kodansha, 2009.
