Kanō Sanraku

 
Birth name Kimura Heizō[1][2]
Born 1559[1][3]
Shiga Prefecture, Japan[3]
Died 1635[1][3]
Kyoto, Japan[3]
Nationality Japanese[2]
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Kanō".

Kanō Sanraku (狩野 山楽?, 1559 - September 30, 1635) was a Japanese painter also known as Kimura Heizō, Shūri, Mitsuyori, and Sanraku.[2]

His father was the painter Kimura Nagamitsu[1] who flourished circa 1570.[3]

Sanraku worked for Toyotomi Hideyoshi[1] in the 1570s,[3] which lead to him studying under and being adopted by Kanō Eitoku.[1][3] Sanraku was the half-sibling and teacher of Kanō Sansetsu,[3] and became Eitoku's son-in-law and later the head of the Kanō school.[1]

His patrons included Tokugawa Hidetada.[1]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Hetl-Kuntze, H. (1969). Hans L. C. Jaffé. ed. Far Eastern Art. The Dolphin history of painting. Translated by German Erich Wolf. Thames and Hudson. pp. 117. 
  2. ^ a b c "Kanō Sanraku (Japanese painter, 1559-1635)". Union list of artist names online. J. Paul Getty Trust. 2004. http://getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500121020. Retrieved 2007-11-14. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Kano Sanraku". The concise Grove dictionary of art. Oxford University Press. 2002. http://www.answers.com/topic/kano-sanraku-2. Retrieved 2007-11-14. 

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