Kanō Tan'yū

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Kanō Tan'yū ( Japanese 狩 野 探幽 , actually: Kanō Morinobu ( 狩 野 守信 ); * March 4, 1602 in Kyōto ; † November 4, 1674 ) was an important Japanese painter of the early Edo period . He led the Kanō School to a new reputation.

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Tan'yū was the eldest son of Kanō Takanobu and grandson of the painter Kanō Eitoku . He showed artistic talent at an early age and was introduced to Tokugawa Ieyasu in Sumpu at the age of ten . He later became court painter ( 奥 絵 師 , Oku-eshi ) of the Tokugawa and received an estate near Edo Castle in the Kajibashi district. At this time, the shogunate built castles and palaces in Edo and the Kyoto area, so that Tan'yū and his younger brothers Naonobu (1607–1650) and Yasunobu (1613–1685) were very busy painting sliding doors (fusuma-e) for the property. So he painted, not even thirty years old, Matsu ni taka for the Nijō Castle in Kyoto, which was completed in 1626 for the visit of the Emperor Go-Mizunoo .

He then produced Fusuma-e for the main building of Osaka Castle (1624-1626), for the Jōraku Hall ( 上 洛 殿 , Jōraku-den ) of Nagoya Castle , for the Tōshōgū in Nikkō, (1636), for the abbots' quarters of the Daitoku -ji (1641), for the Imperial Palace in Kyoto (1642), for the Edo Castle (1644) and for the Kurojoin of Nishi Hongan-ji in Kyoto (1657). Tan'yū also painted a series of portraits of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the picture role Tōshōgū engi maki , which depicts the mystified life of Ieyasu.

In 1622 Tan'yū was awarded the highest honorary title for artists, Hōin ( 法 印 ), by the Shogunate . His grave is in the Ikegami Honmon-ji in Tokyo.

The Kajibashi branch of the Kanō school founded by Tan'yū existed until the beginning of the Meiji period, when all schools of this type dissolved. Tangaku ( 探 岳 ; 1859–1922) and Tandō ( 探 道 ; 1890–1948) were the last of this branch, which includes around 40 painters.

gallery

  • Four seasons (left screen)

  • Phoenix and Paulownia (right screen)

  • Plum and Bamboo in Winter (Nagoya)

literature

  • Tazawa, Yutaka: Bibliographjical Dictionary of Japanes Art. Kodansha International, 1982. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
  • Tokyo National Museum (ed.): Kano-ha no kaiga. 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Kanō, Tan'yū
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 狩 野 探幽 (Japanese, stage name); Kanō Morinobu (real name); 狩 野 守信 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1674
Place of death Edo