Kanō school

Kanō school
Japanese painting style of the 15th–19th centuries.

It was practiced by a family of artists that served the Ashikaga shoguns of the Muromachi period and also Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the shoguns of the Tokugawa period. Bold, large-scale designs were executed on the folding screens and sliding panels that acted as space dividers in the castles of the day. Chinese-style ink painting was blended with polychromatic Yamato-e ("Japanese painting"); some artists used a background of gold leaf for even more striking effects.

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      family of artists who painted in a style developed in Japan in the 15th–19th century. For seven generations, more than 200 years, the leading Japanese artists came from this family, and the official style remained in their hands for another century or more. Throughout their history the family served military masters, and the lofty and moral symbolism of the Kanō tradition was at the same time the political ideal.

      The school arose at a time when Chinese cultural ideals were dominant, but by this time there had been a long history of ink painting in Japan. The Kanō style, Chinese though it appears in subject matter and ink technique, was actually thoroughly Japanese in its form of expression. Gradually the depth of a picture was worked into two planes, and later into a single plane of pictorial interest. The boldness of the brushwork is especially characteristic, and the sharpness of outline differed noticeably from that of the Chinese Sung models. Surface values and flat decorative treatment were emphasized on screens and sliding panels.

      The first Kanō was an amateur artist of the samurai class named Kagenobu. His son Masanobu (1434–1530) became the accepted first generation, but it was Motonobu (1476–1559), his son, who crystallized the Kanō style. Eitoku (1543–90) created the style of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, lasting from 1574 to 1600, while Tanyū (1602–74) established the academic standards that pertained under the Tokugawa rulers (1603–1868).

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