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Kano.
Japanese family of painters. They are presumed to be descended from a line of warriors from the Kano district in what is now Shizuoka Prefecture. Their immediate forebear, Kano Kagenobu, seems to have been a retainer of the Imagawa family and is reported to have painted a picture of Mt Fuji for the visit of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394–1441) in 1432. Kagenobu’s son, (1) Kano Masanobu, was a professional artist whose surviving work is in a style derived from the Kanga (Chinese-style) tradition of ink painting, and Masanobu’s descendants formed the core of the Kano school of secular ink painters (see fig.; see also KANO SCHOOL). One of the most enduring and influential artistic lineages in Japanese history, the Kano family dominated official painting from the end of the Muromachi period (1333–1568) to the end of the Edo period (1600–1868). The following members have entries:
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- Kano (family)
- Japan, §VI, 4(ii)(b): Late Yamatoe painting: Screen, door and wall painting
- Japan, §XVIII, 2: Art training and education, before 1868
- Kano school
- Kyoto, §II, 1: Art life, 8th–12th centuries
- Kyoto, §II, 2: Art life, 13th–19th centuries
- see also KANO SCHOOL
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