Kanō Eitoku
Patriarch of the Kanō school and master of the monumental style.
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Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were among those who supported Eitoku as patrons.[1] When he was 34 years old, Nobunaga employed him.[1]
Quick Facts
- Known for
- Monumental style (taiga) of the Kanō school; National Treasure Kachō zu fusuma
- Born
- 1543
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
In his early twenties, he created two works now considered National Treasures at Jukō-in, a subtemple of Daitoku-ji Temple.[2] By a young age, Eitoku's abilities matched those of Kanō Motonobu.[2] In 1565, Ashikaga Yoshiteru asked Eitoku to create a painting.[2] Records from his era describe Eitoku as an artist who was greatly in demand and attracted many wealthy, powerful patrons.[1]
He maintained a consistent flow of commissions and an effective workshop with students and helpers, and on one occasion he diverted a warlord's commission away from the competing Hasegawa Tōhaku studio.[1] Because of the conflicts during the Sengoku period, the majority of his pieces have been lost.[3]
What the cited sources add
The Tokyo National Museum holds a pair of four-fold screens titled "Cypress Trees" by Kanō Eitoku, which are ink on paper covered with gold leaves and measure 170.3 by 460.5 centimeters.[4] The museum states that this screen is a representative work of monumental polychrome-and-gold painting of the Momoyama period (1573-1615) and was handed down within the Katsuranomiya family.[4] The museum also notes that the screens are thought to be a very late work by Kanō Eitoku (1543-1590).[4]
References
- Wikipedia, "Kanō Eitoku" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cypress tree", www.emuseum.jp; Sansom, "A History of Japan, 1334–1615", Stanford University Press, 1961, p. 381-382 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kanō Eitoku" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bijutsu Techō; The Nagoya Japanese Sword Museum Nagoya Touken World (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kanō Eitoku" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "cherry-blossom", www.axs.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Cypress tree", www.emuseum.jp. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
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