Takanobu Kano

Japanese: 狩野孝信 - かのう・たかのぶ

Year of death: 4th August 30th, Genna (1618.10.18)
Year of birth: 11/25/1571 (12/11/1571)
A painter from the Momoyama period. Born in Kyoto as the second son of Kano Eitoku. His given name was Ukon, later Ukon no Shogen. It is said that he married the daughter of Sassa Narimasa, a vassal of Oda Nobunaga. After the death of his elder brother Mitsunobu, he became the center of the Kano school, and played an active role as the commander in chief during the construction of the Imperial Palace in 1613 (Keicho 18). The "Kensho Shoji" that he painted on this occasion has been preserved at Ninna-ji Temple and is considered a standard work. In recent years, Takanobu's works have been excavated in various places, and in addition to the splendor of Mitsunobu's style, they show powerful brushwork, suggesting that he was a painter who prepared the basic line quality for the Tan'yu style. His grave is at Myokaku-ji Temple in Kyoto, and his posthumous Buddhist name is Endaiin Takanobu Nichiyo.

(Toshinobu Yasumura)

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Japanese:

没年：元和4.8.30(1618.10.18)
生年：元亀2.11.25(1571.12.11)
桃山時代の画家。狩野永徳の次男として京都に生まれる。名を右近,のちに右近将監という。織田信長の家臣佐々成政の娘を妻に迎えたと伝える。兄光信の没後は狩野派の中心となり,慶長18(1613)年の内裏造営では総帥として活躍し,この折描いた「賢聖障子」が仁和寺に伝わっており,基準作とされている。近年各地で孝信作品が発掘され,それによると光信様式の華麗さに加え力強い筆法がみられ,探幽様式の基礎的な線質を準備した画家であったと思われる。墓は京都妙覚寺にあり,法名を円大院孝信日養という。

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