Naganobu Kano

Japanese: 狩野長信 - かのう・ながのぶ

Year of death: November 18, 1654 (December 26, 1654)
Year of birth: Tensho 5 (1577)
A painter of the Kano school in the Momoyama and early Edo periods. He was the founder of the Okachimachi Kano family, one of the official painters of the shogunate. He was the fourth son of Shoei and went by the pen name Kyūhaku. During the Keichō era (1596-1615), he had an audience with Tokugawa Ieyasu in Kyoto, and then travelled to Sunpu to become his official painter. He went to Edo around 1605, and became Hokkyō in 1625 (Kan'ei 2), where he died. He was one of the earliest painters to fully work for the Tokugawa family, and played an extremely important role in opening the door for the Kano family to later become official painters for the shogunate. His representative work is the "Leisure under the Flowers Screen" (Tokyo National Museum). He was buried at Shingyō-ji Temple in Yanaka, Edo. <References> Yuki Somei, "A Study of Kano Naganobu"

(Satoru Sakakibara)

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Japanese:

没年：承応3.11.18(1654.12.26)
生年：天正5(1577)
桃山・江戸前期の狩野派の画家。幕府の表絵師のひとつ,御徒町狩野家の祖。松栄の4男,休伯と号した。慶長年間(1596～1615)京都で徳川家康に拝謁,次いで駿府に下り,その御用絵師となった。慶長10(1605)年ごろ江戸へ赴き,寛永2(1625)年法橋となり,この地で没した。本格的に徳川家の御用を勤めた最も早い画家のひとりで,狩野家がこののち,幕府の御用絵師となる端緒を開いた点で,極めて重要な役割を果たした。代表作に「花下遊楽図屏風」(東京国立博物館蔵)がある。江戸谷中の信行寺に葬られた。<参考文献>結城素明『狩野長信の研究』

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