Kano motonobu biography

Kanō Motonobu was a Japanese painter and calligrapher.
Kanō Motonobu was a great master of Japanese painting.
A gifted and versatile artist, Motonobu excelled in landscapes (both in monochrome and in light colour), figures, and flower-and-bird pictures.

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Kanō Motonobu

Japanese painter (1476–1559)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kanō.

Kanō Motonobu (狩野元信, August 28, 1476 – November 5, 1559) was a Japanesepainter and calligrapher. He was a member of the Kanō school of painting. Through his political connections, patronage, organization, and influence he was able to make the Kanō school into what it is today. The system was responsible for the training of a great majority of painters throughout the Edo period (1603–1868). After his death, he was referred to as Kohōgen (古法眼).

Family background

The Kanō family are presumed to be the descendants from a line of warriors from the Kanō district. The Kanō district is now called Shizuoka Prefecture. The forebear of this family was Kanō Kagenobu. He seems to have been a retainer of the Imagawa family. It has been reported that he painted a picture of Mount Fuji for a visit to the shōgunAshikaga Yoshinori in 1432. The Kanō family dominated the painting world from the end of the Muromachi period (1336–1573) to the end of the Edo period (1603–1868).

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Second Leader of the Kanō School: Kanō Motonobu

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By Karl Cole, posted on Aug 24, 2020

At the end of this week, August 28, we remember the anniversary of the passing of Kanō Motonobu (1476–1559) of the illustrious Kanō School. Not really a “school,” the Kanō School was a group of artists who shared a similar aesthetic and adopted the Kanō family name. This “fearsome” dragon probably looks the way most of us feel right now with no end in sight to the pandemic. On the other hand, I’ve always found the style of depicting such creatures as dragons, tigers, and lions by traditional Japanese artists to be rather charming.

This monochromatic hanging scroll depicts a fantastical dragon descending from shadowy clouds above a storm-tossed sea

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狩野元信 Kanō Motonobu (1476-1559)

Kanō Motonobu, (born Aug. 28, 1476 —died Nov. 5, 1559, Kyōto) great master of Japanese painting.
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Like his father, Masanobu, the first of the Kanō painters, Motonobu served the Ashikaga shoguns (a family of military rulers who governed Japan from 1338 to 1573) and inherited the Chinese-inspired monochromatic ink-painting style (suiboku-ga, “water-ink painting”) favoured by the Ashikagas. Motonobu, however, was also the son-in-law of Tosa Mitsunobu, founder of the Tosa school of painting specializing in the native Yamato-e (Japanese Painting) style, and he effected a compromise by combining the strong brushwork of the Chinese suiboku-ga with the decorative appeal of the Yamato-e. The resulting style was especially suitable for large-scale compositions and practically dominated Japanese painting for the next 300 years.
A gifted and versatile artist, Motonobu excelled in landscapes (bo