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The Kano family established the Kano school and was famous as an Edo painter.
You will never forget that elegant painting for the first time.

However, as everyone has a strong and weak fields, I am not familiar with art and art.
Even though I heard Kano school and Yotsuya Edo Kano, I only kept my minimum knowledge as a measure for the Chuo-ku sightseeing certification, and I honestly did not have any further interest.

However, when it comes to approach from the angle of archeological sites and remain instead of painting, it is strange that the same Kano family will be interested at once!
In October 2017, when I first applied for the Chuo-ku Tourism Test (before becoming a correspondent), I participated in the Kyobashi 1-chome archeological site tour held in the rain.

Kyobashi 1-chome was mainly a townspeople area called Nakahashi 1-chome (it became Minamidenmacho 1-chome in the early Edo period) and Ogamachi in the Edo period.
A part of Ogamachi was the place where the residence of the Kano Nakabashi family, the sect of Edo Kano Yotsuya, the shogunate's Oku-e artist, was located, and there was a site where the Kano family worshiped. It is highly likely.
(* It seems that most may have been lent to townspeople.)

It doesn't seem to know the details yet, but I'm suddenly interested in what kind of life the Kano family lived.

A while ago, when I visited Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, I happened to find a sign that says "Muromachi-Kano Castle Ruins, the birthplace of the main stream of Kano school in the Edo period"!
Because of the limited time of stay in the area, I passed by car once, but did you make a U-turn and stroll around the castle ruins as a correspondent of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association?

There was a sign here near the parking lot.
Apparently, the ancestors of Kano school, who prospered as painters, seemed to have participated in the battle of Mt. Ishibashi according to Minamoto no Yoritomo and held key positions as Gohojo's heavy minister.
Ashamed, I didn't know about the ancestors of the Kano family until now, and I thought it was a painter's family from the beginning, but I was surprised to learn that it wasn't!

In addition, this genealogy mentions Edo Kano Yotsuya, and there are also pupils such as Oukyo Maruyama, so you will study.

The whole picture of the Kano family, which had been understood somehow, gradually began to be seen with this opportunity.
Due to the schedule, I couldn't take a leisurely stroll through the castle ruins, but in Izu, I was able to unexpectedly know the roots of Edo Kano Yotsuya, which was a meaningful excursion.

As interest in Kano school and Yotsuya Edo Kano took this opportunity, I would like to go one step further and learn about their history and their relationship with Chuo-ku.

The site of Kano Art School
Address: 5-13-12, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
※On the south side of Hotel Grand Bach Tokyo Ginza, there is a signboard for the newly installed Kano Painting School site and a "Four Seasons Flowers and Birds Screen" (partly).