Edo Kano

Japanese: 江戸狩野 - えどがのう

The Kano school that was active in Edo after Kano Tan'yū. It is called Edo Kano as opposed to Kyo Kano. The Kano school that began with Masanobu was active mainly in Kyoto, but after the establishment of the Edo Shogunate, Naganobu, Mitsunobu, and Takanobu served the Tokugawa clan. Tan'yū then became an official painter for the Shogunate in 1617, and in the same year was given a house in Edo Kajibashimongai and founded the Kajibashi Kano school. Next, Naonobu and Yasunobu also served the Shogunate during the Kan'ei era (1624-1644), and were each given a house, and founded the Kobiki-cho Kano and Nakahashi Kano schools. The four schools, including Hamamachi Kano, were called oku-eshi and maintained their position as the top Shogunate painters, with branch families, disciples who were omote-eshi and town-eshi below them. Edo Kano was incorporated into the Shogunate-han system and was the center of the art world for a long time, but its style gradually became a mere formality.

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Japanese:

狩野探幽以後江戸で活躍した狩野派。京狩野に対して江戸狩野と呼ぶ。正信に始る狩野派は京都を中心に活躍していたが，江戸幕府成立後，長信，光信，孝信らが徳川氏に出仕。その後探幽は元和3 (1617) 年幕府御用絵師となり，同7年江戸鍛冶橋門外に屋敷を賜わって鍛冶橋狩野を創始。次いで尚信，安信も寛永年間 (24～44) に幕府に仕えてそれぞれ屋敷を拝領し，木挽町狩野，中橋狩野を興した。これに浜町狩野を加えた4家は奥絵師と呼ばれ，幕府絵師の筆頭的地位を保ち，その下に分家，門人による表絵師や町狩野があった。江戸狩野は幕藩体制に組込まれて，長く画壇の中心であったが，その画風は次第に形骸化した。

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