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Kano Eitoku

1543-1590 Japan/Kano School

 

Brief Biography-Kanō Eitoku, the third generation of the Kanō School, was Kanō Masanobu's grandson. He painted large folding screens and sliding panels for the interiors of buildings. He was the principal artist of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period, commissioned by the military sovereigns Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Two of his most noted paintings are the eight-panel Cypress Trees in the Tokyo National Museum and the six-panel Chinese Lions in the Museum of Imperial Collections, Tokyo.

 

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chinese lions

chinese lions


cypress trees

cypress trees

people of the ming
dynasty playing go

people of the ming dynasty playing go