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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]].

Not related by blood to the Kanô masters, he was adopted into the school and the family 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.

Sanraku's style has been described as a "retreat from some of Eitoku's dynamic imagery, substituting first a naturalism of expression and then a quality of elegant ornamentation"<ref>Mason. p259.</ref>. His time was marked by a slightly more intellectual or historically-minded approach both on the part of the artist and the patron, as elements or aspects of the ''[[yamato-e]]'' and ''[[kara-e]]'' (''kanga'') styles of the Heian and medieval periods were re-examined and revived.

Sanraku's style has been described as a "retreat from some of Eitoku's dynamic imagery, substituting first a naturalism of expression and then a quality of elegant ornamentation"<ref>Mason. p259.</ref>. His time was marked by a slightly more intellectual or historically-minded approach both on the part of the artist and the patron, as elements or aspects of the ''[[yamato-e]]'' and ''[[kara-e]]'' (''kanga'') styles of the Heian and medieval periods were re-examined and revived.