Edo Kano school and the site of Kano Painting School in Chuo-ku
I read the Kano school Study Book held by the Itabashi-ku Museum of Art from July to August 2020.
According to the explanation,
Kano school began in the late Muromachi period Masanobu Kano (1434-1530).
Masanobu learned the style of a Chinese painter (brush) and climbed up to the painter of the Ashikaga Shogunate. Motoshin, the eldest son of Masanobu (1477?) 1559 (~1559) organized the Kano school as a group of painters, and the big screen of shohekiga by Eitoku (1543~90) attracted warload of the Warring States period such as Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
With the establishment of Edo shogunate, Kano school moved from Kyoto to Edo to serve the Tokugawa family.
Edo Kano school is the Kano family who has been active in Edo since he was appointed as a painter at the age of 16 (1602-74).
Yuyu drew a composition conscious of the frame and margins of the screen with a poetic and light brushstroke, creating a style suitable for the new era when order and peace came. (The explanation above was based on the explanation of the Kano school Study Book held by the Itabashi Art Museum from July to August 2020.)
※The monument to the “Kano Painting School Ruins” is located on the glass wall of the newly opened “Hotel Grand Bach Tokyo Ginza Hotel Grand Bach”. I'm sure that the hotel's side cooperated.
Kano Nakabashi family, site of Kano painting school in Yotsuya Kibiki-cho, Edo Kano
The Edo Kano Yotsuya is said to be the ghost of the Kajibashi family, the Shoshin of the Kibori Machiya, the Yasunobu of the Nakahashi family, and the Shinshin of Hamacho.
The Kano Yuyu's mansion is currently located at Yaesu 2-chome (near the Kajibashi intersection), and the Shoshin's mansion in Kibori Machiya has an explanation board as the "Kano Painting School Ruins". (As shown in the attached photo). The residence of Shinshin in Hamacho, a branch of Kobiki-cho, is unknown. There is no explanation board for the Nakahashi family of the Soke family, and a panel for explanation of "Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige House Ruins" said, "The house was a two-story independent house located next to the Kano Nakabashi family residence, among the back painters of the Shogunate (Goyo painter) Kano Yotsuya. ] It is described in the explanation.
Attached, the explanation of "Kano Painting School Ruins" is shown.
Yotsuya Kano, who was the inner painter of Edo shogunate, was founded by the three brothers of Kano Shuyu, Shoshin and Yasunobu, and all the Yotsuya mansions of "Kajibashi", "Kibikicho", "Nakahashi" and "Hamacho (Kibikicho branch house)" were located in the ward. Naonobu Kano, the founder of the Kano family in Kibiki-cho, was called to Edo in 1630 (1630), and worshiped a mansion in Takekawa-cho (currently Ginza 7-chome) and became a Oku painter. After that, at the time of Norinobu Rokudai (in the case of Egawa, Egawa-in, etc.), he gained the knowledge of the elderly and Okitsugu Tanuma, and moved to this area, which is the southwest corner of Tanuma's residence in Kibiki-cho, to open a painting school. Among the Oku painters, Kano Yotsuya, the most prosperous Kibikicho Kano family, received hundreds of millions of requests for production paintings from various daimyo and others, and many gatekeepers gathered. Most of the pupils were children of painters of various princes, who entered at the age of 14 to 15, and required more than 10 years of training. After training, he was given a letter from the teacher's name and was said to have the qualification to form a family as a painter. Many painters have been produced from this Kano painting school, but Yoshika Kano and Gaho Hashimoto, who have greatly contributed to the modern Japanese art world of the Meiji era, are both students of the teenth generation of the Kano family in Kibikicho and Masanobu.
July 2021 Chuo-ku Board of Education
(Reference) Add how to read the name. Norinobu, Masanobu (Tadanobu)
Ikegami Honmonji Temple Kano Family burial ground
The grave of the Kano family is located at Ikegami Honmonji Temple in Daihonzan in Nichiren sect.
The graves seem to be scattered around one near five-storied pagoda, four in total.
Takanobu Kano on the right side of tahoto pagoda and the grave of Kano Hiyu on the left side are displayed on the precincts map. We refrain from posting photos of graves. I came here when Yoshino cherry tree was in full bloom. gassho
(Note) The headquarters of Nichiren sect is Mt. Minobu Kuonji Temple. According to Mt. Minobu's website, Daihonzan in Nichiren sect is not only Ikegami Honmonji Temple, but also Tanjoji Temple (Chiba), Kiyosumiji Temple (Chiba), Nakayama Lotus Sutra Temple (Chiba), Kitayama Honmonji Temple (Shizuoka), Myokenji Temple (Kyoto), and Honkuniji Temple (Kyoto).