was a Japanese painter of the

Kanō school The is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting from the late 15th century until the Meiji era, Meiji period which began in 1868, by which time the school had divided i ...

. He was also known as

Kanō Masanobu was a Japanese painter. He was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and is generally considered the founder of the Kanō school of painting. Kano Masanobu specialized in Zen paintings as well as elaborate paintings of Buddhist deities an ...

(the name of his famous ancestor, the founder of the school) and Kanō Shōsen, and took the ''gō'' (

art-name An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names ''hào'' (in Mandarin Chinese), ''gō'' (in Japanese), ' (in Korean), and ''tên hiệu'' (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by artists, poets and writers in the Sinosp ...

s) Soshōsei and Shōko. Shōsen'in studied in a studio in the Kobikichō section of

Edo Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the '' de facto'' capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogu ...

, under his father, Seisen also known as Kanō Osanobu.

References

*Frédéric, Louis (2002). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1823 births 1880 deaths Kanō school 19th-century Japanese artists 19th-century Japanese painters {{Japan-painter-stub