KanÅ school
The Kano School (Japanese狩 野 派, Kano -ha ) is a school of Japanese painting and includes the painters of the Kano family, which also includes adopted master-disciple belong. Painters of the Kano family were as court painter (御用 絵 师, Goyo Eshi ) accredited the hereditary shogun. The school existed from the mid-15th century to the end of the 19th century.
The family
The champion of the Kano School was Kano Masanobu (正 信, 1432-1530 ) in Kyoto, the first high point of the school in the fourth generation Eitoku (永 徳; 1543-1590 ). After Eitoku the sons and master-disciple founded their own schools in Edo, where orders were to be expected by the shogun and the city residences of the daimyo. It emerged as the Kajibashi branch, founded by the outstanding Tan'yu (探幽; 1602-1674 ), the Nakahashi branch - this was the main line - founded by Yasunobu (安 信, 1613-1694 ), the Suruga - branch, justified by Toun (洞 云; 1625-1694 ), the Kobikicho branch, founded by Tsunenobu (常 信, 1636-1713 ) and a number of other branches. In Kyoto, the third great master Sanraku remained (山 楽; 1559-1635 ), the fourth Great, Sansetsu (山 雪; 1590-1651 ) followed. In the 18th century the importance of the Kano school went back. Artists from the crafts and middle-class rose and founded new competing schools. The last master of Kanō - school is Hōgai (芳 崖; 1828-1888 ). In his painting based of " Japanese style of painting ," Nihonga, who continued the national tradition over the inherited from Europe "Western style of painting " Yōga.
The painting style of the school
The effects of the above large master falls into the designated as Momoyama period art historical era and the early Edo period, and ranged from approximately 1570 to 1600 at this time., The new rulers were in the land of big build palaces, whose walls, interior sliding doors, consuming were decorated and complemented by equally elaborate folding screens. The monochrome painting style of the early Kanō School was indeed continued, but now beautiful colored paintings, applied arrived on a gold background, do so. Unfortunately, many buildings no longer exist, so the the Fushimi Castle (伏 见 城) on the Momoyama ( "Peach Mountain" ) in Uji, which gave the name of the artistic movement, or the jurakudai (聚 楽 第), a palace in Kyoto, both of Toyotomi Hideyoshi built and destroyed after his death. From the preserved buildings is the most accessible, the Nijo Palace in Kyoto, are seen in the wall paintings in particular Tan'yu. The famous folding screen Eitokus with Cypress ( National Treasure ) is kept in the National Museum Tōkyō.