Kanō Takanobu (, 1 December 1571 – 18 October 1618) 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 ...

of painting during the

Azuchi–Momoyama period The was the final phase of the in Japanese history from 1568 to 1600. After the outbreak of the Ōnin War in 1467, the power of the Ashikaga Shogunate effectively collapsed, marking the start of the chaotic Sengoku period. In 1568, Oda Nob ...

(1573–). He was the father of

Kanō Tan'yū was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. One of the foremost Kanō painters of the Tokugawa period, many of the best known Kanō works today are by Tan'yū. Biography His original given name was Morinobu; he was the eldest son of K ...

, one of the most prominent painters of the school.

Life and career

Takanobu was born in

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on the 25th day of the 11th month of the 2nd year of Genki. He was the youngest son of the

head painter

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(1543–90) and younger brother of

Kanō Mitsunobu Kanō Mitsunobu (, 1565–1608) was a son of Kanō Eitoku and an influential artist of the Kanō school of Japanese painting. Biography Scholars disagree on the year of Mitsunobu's birth, placing it in either 1561 or 1565. The earliest record o ...

. When Kanō Naganobu (1577–1654)—Eitoku's brother—moved at the behest of the recently ascendent

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to its new administrative capital of

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(modern Tokyo) around 1610–15, Takanobu remained in Kyoto, where the commissions he received indicate he was a favourite of the court. At the time only Takanobu and Naganobu had sufficient skill to head branches of the school. With financial backing from the Tokugawa shogunate, Takanobu conceived and oversaw the painting to be done for the new palace of

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, work which was finished in 1614 with Takanobu applying the final touches to many of the sliding panels there and in surrounding buildings. The twenty panels depicting thirty-two Chinese sages in the throne room of the '' shishin-den'' are attributed to Takanobu. These panels are some of the few works of Takanobu to have survived, and are the oldest surviving paintings from the ''shishin-den''. In 1617 Naganobu's eldest son Tan'yū was called to Edo and made a , an exclusive position painting for the shogunate. Another son,

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(1607–50), succeeded as head of the Kyoto branch upon Takanobu's death in 1618, though he too moved to Edo in 1630. The line continued under Mitsunobu's son Sadanobu, who died without an heir in 1623 but had adopted Takanobu's youngest son Yasunobu, who thus continued the Kyoto line until he also was made ''goyō eshi'' and moved to Edo, though he maintained his claim as head of the Kyoto branch. Hotei by Kano Takanobu, 1616, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006.115.jpg,

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, 1616 Portrait of Murasaki Shikibu.jpg, Portrait of

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Rakuchu rakugai zu byobu (Fukuoka City Museum).jpg, ''Rakuchu Rakugai-zu'', ''

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'' folding screen,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kano, Michinobu 1571 births 1618 deaths 16th-century Japanese people 16th-century Japanese artists 16th-century Japanese painters 17th-century Japanese painters Kanō school