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(1) Kano Masanobu [Hakushin; Shogen; Yusei; Masanobu]
( fl 1463–96; d ?1530). At an early age he went to Kyoto, where he is thought to have studied Kanga (Chinese-style ink painting) with OGURI SOTAN, the painter-in-residence (goyo eshi) to the Ashikaga shogun. Sotan lived at the Shokokuji, a Zen temple in Kyoto patronized by the Ashikaga family, and the earliest record of Masanobu’s activity as an artist—the execution of a lost series of screen-and-wall paintings (shohekiga) for a subtemple of the Shokokuji in 1463—is found in the Inryoken nichiroku, the official journal kept by the monks there. During the Onin Wars (1466–77), Masanobu fled the devastation in Kyoto for Nara. After Sotan’s death in 1481, Masanobu’s name began to appear frequently in the Inryoken nichiroku, particularly in connection with commissions by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436–90) and the Shokokuji, but it is not clear whether Masanobu inherited Sotan’s post of painter-in-residence.
Part of the Kano family
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