The Kanbun Master was one of the earliest pioneers in the woodblock print art style which would later come to be known as ''[[ukiyo-e]]''. Nothing is known about his personal life, birth and death dates, or even his name; scholars have thus come to call him simply "the Kanbun Master", after the imperial era of Kanbun during which most of his works were produced. | The Kanbun Master was one of the earliest pioneers in the woodblock print art style which would later come to be known as ''[[ukiyo-e]]''. Nothing is known about his personal life, birth and death dates, or even his name; scholars have thus come to call him simply "the Kanbun Master", after the imperial era of Kanbun during which most of his works were produced. |