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(12) Kano Naonobu [Shume; Jitekisai]
(b Heian [now Kyoto], 1607; d 1650). Brother of (11) Kano Tan’yu and (13) Kano Yasunobu. After the death of their father Kano Takanobu (1571–1618), (9) Kano Koi instructed Naonobu and Yasunobu in painting. Since Tan’yu had already become an official painter-in-residence (goyo eshi) to the shogunate in Edo (now Tokyo), his brother Naonobu inherited his father’s estate. In 1625, Naonobu, along with Tan’yu, Yasunobu, Koi and other Kano artists, worked on the sliding-door ( fusuma) paintings of Nijo Castle (see KYOTO, §IV, 9), which was in the process of being prepared by the shogun Tokugawa Iemistu (1604–51) for an imperial visit. In 1630 Naonobu moved to Edo, became an official painter and received an estate in Takekawacho, where he founded the Kobikicho branch of the Edo Kano school, one of four lines of oku eshi (‘painters of the inner quarters’) descending from Takanobu and exclusively serving the shogunate. Their pupils and more distantly related Kano artists established lines of omote eshi (‘painters of the outer quarters’) who served daimyo. Naonobu’s status as an oku eshi granted him direct access to the shogun, the right to carry a sword and a substantial annual stipend.
Part of the Kano family
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