Kanō Tsunenobu

Tsunenobu: tiger behind bamboo

Kanō Tsunenobu ( japanese 狩野常信 , stage name : Yōboku ( 養朴 ) Seihakusai ( 青白斎 ) Kosensō ( 古川叟 ) Kōkansai ( 耕寛斎 ) Nickname: Ukon ( 右近 ); born 18th April 1636 , in Edo ; died February 21, 1713 ) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school of the early Edo period and second head of the Kobikichō branch.

life and work

Tsunenobu was the eldest son of Kanō Naonobu and took over the management of the Kobikichō branch of the Kanō school after the death of his father in 1650. He took part in the decoration of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto with screens and wall paintings ( 障 壁画 , Shōheki-ga ) in the Shōō (1652-1654) -, the Kambun (1661-1672) - and in the Empō period (1673-1680 ). When construction work in the Hōei period (1704–1710) was carried out, he was entrusted with the execution of the sliding door paintings ( 襖 絵 , Fusuma -e ) with the theme of “important and wise” ( 拳 聖 , Kensei ).

1704 Tsunenobu received the honorary title "Hōgen" and 1709 the title Hōin . His sketches of famous paintings, known as "Tsunenobu shukuzu" ( 常 信 縮 図 ), are - along with similar sketches by Kanō Tan'yū - a valuable source for the study of Japanese art. - Tsunenobu died at the age of 77 and was buried on the Hommon-ji in Ikegami on the outskirts of Edo.

Tsunenobu's most famous work is the screen with the title "Phoenix and Paulownien " ( 桐 鳳凰 図 , Kiri hōō-zu ), now owned by the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku .

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  Spring and summer

Remarks

1. ↑ Hōgen ( 法眼 ) and the higher title Hōin ( 法 印 ) were - together with the lowest degree Hokkyō ( 法 橋 ) - honorary titles that were originally awarded to high priests, but later also to artists and scholars.
2. ↑ These are three of numerous hanging scrolls that Tsunenobu painted for the Imperial Palace in Kyoto and which he copied for the Konoe family . They are still owned by the family and are kept by Yōmei Bunko . These are the Chinese sages Tai Kung ( Chinese   大公 ) in the middle (in Europe also under the name Jiang Ziya ( 姜 子牙 )), flanked by Xiao He ( 蕭 何 ) and Fang Xuanling . - These three hanging scrolls were shown in 1939 at the exhibition of Old Japanese Art in Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Owned by the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum .

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Kanō Tsunenobu . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Tsunenobu . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .
• Staatliche Museen / Berlin (Hrsg.): Exhibition of old Japanese art. Berlin 1939. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Kanō Tsunenobu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kanō is the family name, Tsunenobu the first name.