Kanō Sansetsu

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Born 1589[1][2]
Hizen Province, Kyūshū,[2] Japan
Died 1651[1][2]
Kyoto,[2] Japan
Nationality Japanese[3]

Kanō Sansetsu (狩野山雪?) was a Japanese painter also known as Kano Heishiro.[2]

Sansetsu was apprenticed to Kanō Sanraku, married his daughter, and was adopted by him after the death of Sanraku's eldest son.[1][2] Sansetsu became the leader of the Kanō school.[1]

[edit] Works

  • Dragon in the clouds, hanging scroll, ink on paper.[3]
  • Huang Chuping, hanging scroll, ink on paper.[3]
  • Laozi, one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper.[3]
  • Mount Fuji, hanging scroll, ink and gold on paper.[3]
  • The old plum ca. 1645, four sliding door panels (fusuma), ink, color, gold leaf on paper.[4]
  • Seabirds on a winter coast, screen, color, India ink, and gold on paper. collection hosotsugi, Kyoto.[1]
  • The ten snow incidents, one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and light color on paper.[3]
  • Transcendent, hanging scroll, ink on paper.[3]
  • Two chickens on thatched roof, hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper.[3]
  • Xiwangmu (Seiobo), the Queen Mother of the West and Mu Wang (Bokuo), one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Hetl-Kuntze, H. (1969). in Hans L. C. Jaffé: Far Eastern Art, Translated by German Erich Wolf, The Dolphin history of painting, London: Thames and Hudson, p. 119. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f Kano Sansetsu. The concise Grove dictionary of art. Oxford University Press (2002). Retrieved on 2007-11-18.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i MFABoston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved on 2007-11-18.
  4. ^ Attributed to Kano Sansetsu: The Old Plum (1975.268.48). In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (10 2006). Retrieved on 2007-11-18.
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