Kano School

It is here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to art: legend has it that a fellow fireman tutored him in the Kano school of painting, though Hiroshige’s first official teach...

It is probable that these images can be traced back to Chinese illustrated books and/or paint- ings by the Kano School. This motif seems to have been well received in Europe. since ...

In this composition, the space is shared equally by the rich golden sky and the pine trees, reminiscent of the ink and gold paintings of the Kano School, which dominated Japanese art...

In this composition, the space is shared equally by the rich golden sky and the pine trees, reminiscent of the ink and gold paintings of the Kano School, which dominated Japanese art...

Kita Busei was a celebrated pupil of the great master Tani Bunchō and a versatile artist who blended the formal Kanō school, decorative Rinpa, and literati (Nanga) styles.

In his younger days, he had studied the Kanō school of painting; but his interest was drawn to ukiyo-e.

It is here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to art: legend has it that a fellow fireman tutored him in the Kano school of painting, though Hiroshige’s first official teach...

It is here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to art: legend has it that a fellow fireman tutored him in the Kano school of painting, though Hiroshige’s first official teach...

He was the third son of the painter, Kanō Eitai (狩野永泰 [ja]). He became dissatisfied with the prevailing Kanō school style and took up the older Yamato-e style instead, although not a...

These known examples depicting grape vines are rendered in a similar manner using gold leaf and moriage (raised design): A pair of screens from the Kano School housed in the Tokyo Fu...

The mood of the scene is observational and seasonal, not emblematic of power as were many screens from the more wide-spread Kano school. The composition is unified by wind and atmosp...

In this work by Toshuku the jet black crows are the focus of the painting while the scratchy pines barely seem able to hold their weight. In the Kano school work more attention has b...

In his younger days, he had studied the Kanō school of painting; but his interest was drawn to ukiyo-e.

Born in Edo as the son of Tsurusawa Tanzan, a pupil of Kanō Tan'yū, he moved to Kyoto at a young age and inherited the artistic traditions of the Edo Kano school.

He also studied the techniques of the well-established Kanō school, the nanga whose tradition began with the Chinese Southern School, and the realistic Shijō school, and likely the l...

After working for a short time as a boy with ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, he received his formal artistic training in the Kanō school under Maemura Tōwa (前村洞和, ? – 1841), who ga...

As was common during the Edo period, Hoitsu began his study of painting with the officially sanctioned Kano school, later receiving influence from and instruction in the contemporary...

For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik...

In contrast to the highly formalized conventions of the Kanō and Tosa schools, Shijō artists emphasized direct study of the natural world, seeking to capture the vitality and charact...

The Kanō and Tosa schools had become bywords for rigid formalism by this time.

Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650) was a Japanese painter of the early Edo period (1603–1868). Trained in both Kano and Tosa school, the individualistic and versatile painter became an heir t...