Kanō Masanobu
1434
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1530
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Kanō school
country of citizenship: Japan
occupation: painter
student of: Ten-Ō Sōtan, Tenshō Shūbun
Kanō Masanobu (狩野 正信, 1434? – August 2, 1530?, Kyoto) was a Japanese painter. He was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and is generally considered the founder of the Kanō school of painting. Kano Masanobu specialized in Zen paintings as well as elaborate paintings of Buddhist deities and Bodhisattvas. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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