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*''Japanese'': [[狩野]]山楽 ''(Kanou Sanraku)''
*''Japanese'': [[狩野]]山楽 ''(Kanou Sanraku)''
Kanô Sanraku was a prominent [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]] painter of the [[Kano school|Kanô school]].
Kanô Sanraku was a prominent [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]] painter of the [[Kano school|Kanô school]], and the leading Kanô artist in [[Kyoto]] for a time after the other masters of the school relocated to [[Edo]].<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 37.</ref>
Not related by blood to the Kanô masters, he was adopted into the school and the family by [[Kano Eitoku|Kanô Eitoku]], after [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], whom he served as a page, noticed his artistic skill and had him placed there.
Not related by blood to the Kanô masters, he was adopted into the school and the family by [[Kano Eitoku|Kanô Eitoku]], after [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], whom he served as a page, noticed his artistic skill and had him placed there.
When the Toyotomi fell following the [[1615]] [[siege of Osaka]], Sanraku retreated from the art world, becoming a Buddhist monk and taking on the name Sanraku for the first time (up until then, he had been known as Mitsuyori). After a roughly four-year period of seclusion and absence from the art world, Sanraku returned to Kyoto in [[1619]], commissioned to produce paintings for the Imperial Palace in preparation for the occasion of the marriage of [[Tofukumon-in|Tôfukumon-in]], daughter of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], to [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]].
When the Toyotomi fell following the [[1615]] [[siege of Osaka]], Sanraku retreated from the art world, becoming a Buddhist monk and taking on the name Sanraku for the first time (up until then, he had been known as Mitsuyori). After a roughly four-year period of seclusion and absence from the art world, Sanraku returned to Kyoto in [[1619]], commissioned to produce paintings for the Imperial Palace in preparation for the occasion of the marriage of [[Tofukumon-in|Tôfukumon-in]], daughter of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], to [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]].
He died in 1635.
He died in 1635, and was succeeded as head of the Kyoto Kanô by his adopted son [[Kano Sansetsu|Kanô Sansetsu]].
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