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(3) Kano Shoei [Naonobu; Tadanobu; Shoei]
(b Kyoto, 1519; d Kyoto, 1592). Son of (2) Kano Motonobu. In 1553 he and his father were received at the Ishiyama Honganji, the temple in Osaka where Motonobu had been working since 1539, and ‘Genshichi’ (Shoei’s youthful name) was paid for a pair of folding screens (untraced) painted in ink. Later Shoei accompanied Motonobu in decorating the walls of the Zuihoin, a subtemple of the Daitokuji in Kyoto built by the daimyo Otomo Sorin (1530–87). On his father’s death in 1559 Shoei succeeded as head of the Kano school, presumably after the early deaths of his two elder brothers, Kano Yusetsu Munenobu (1514–?1545) and Kano ?Joshin. Soon afterwards the Daitokuji employed Shoei to create an immense hanging scroll of Parinirvana (‘Death of Buddha’; 6.33*3.81 m; 1563; Kyoto, Daitokuji), the only work by him on a Buddhist theme known to survive and his earliest datable work. In 1566 he returned to the Daitokuji, this time with his son (5) Kano Eitoku, to decorate the Jukoin, the mortuary chapel for the daimyo Miyoshi Nagayoshi (Chokei; 1523–64). The screen-and-wall paintings (shohekiga) at the Jukoin have traditionally been ascribed solely to Eitoku, but a number of compositions—the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers in the south-west room; Monkeys and Tigers and Leopard in the north-west room; and the small panels in the Buddhist altar room called Fish and Birds in a Lotus Pond—are closer in style to Shoei’s softly diffused rendering of the informal gyotai (‘running form’) mode of ink painting.
Part of the Kano family
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