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Kanô Shunko was a [[Kano school|Kanô school]] painter and student of [[Kano Shunsetsu|Kanô Shunsetsu]].

Kanô Shunko was a [[Kano school|Kanô school]] painter and student of [[Kano Shunsetsu|Kanô Shunsetsu]].

A native of [[Shinano province]], he came to serve as guardian for Shunsetsu's son [[Kano Shunsho|Kanô Shunshô]]<!--春笑-->. 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]],<ref>British Museum gallery label.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20702845859/in/photostream/]</ref> he produced a number of official paintings for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]; among these was a ''[[Ryukyuan embassy|Ryûkyû Edo Nobori]]'' handscroll depicting the [[1710]] Ryukyuan embassy procession to/in [[Edo]], today in the collection of the British Museum.[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=788262&partid=1&output=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F1205%2F!%2F%2F!%2Fambassador%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database%2Fadvanced_search.aspx&currentPage=2&numpages=10]

A native of [[Shinano province]], he came to serve as guardian for Shunsetsu's son [[Kano Shunsho|Kanô Shunshô]]<!--春笑-->. He was permitted to take the name "Kanô," and began his own branch family, the Inari-bashi Kanô. Shunko was also employed for a time as official court painter to [[Tokugawa Ienobu|Tokugawa Tsunatoyo]], lord of [[Kofu han|Kôfu han]] (Tsunatoyo would later become Shogun under the name Tokugawa Ienobu), and it was while in that position, in [[1694]], that he was first ordered to produce a series of works by [[Arai Hakuseki]]. This series was a collection of depictions of [[bird and flower painting|birds and flowers]] and other objects, commissioned on the occasion of Hakuseki having been invited to give a formal lecture to Tsunatoyo. The collection, known as ''shikyôzu'' ("Images of Poems and Sutras") is today in the collection of the [[Imperial Household Agency]].<ref name=yoko>Yokoyama Manabu, ''Ryûkyûkoku shisetsu tôjô gyôretsu emaki wo yomu'', in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'' (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), 168-169.</ref>

 

Continuing to work for Hakuseki in later years,<ref>British Museum gallery label.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20702845859/in/photostream/]</ref> he produced a number of official paintings for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. Among these were a ''[[Ryukyuan embassy|Ryûkyû Edo Nobori]]'' handscroll depicting the [[1710]] Ryukyuan embassy procession to/in [[Edo]], today in the collection of the British Museum.[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=788262&partid=1&output=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F1205%2F!%2F%2F!%2Fambassador%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database%2Fadvanced_search.aspx&currentPage=2&numpages=10], and a [[byobu|folding screen]] painting depicting the [[1711]] [[Korean embassy to Edo]].<ref name=yoko/>

 

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