Kano Eitoku
1543-1590 Japan/Kano School
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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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