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(13) Kano Yasunobu [Bokushinsai; Eishin; Kano Genshiro; Ukyonoshin]
(b Kyoto, 1613; d Edo [now Tokyo], 1685). Brother of (11) Kano Tan’yu and (12) Kano Naonobu. He received his formal instruction as a painter from (9) Kano Koi, who had also taught his brothers. At the age of ten he was selected to succeed Kano Sadanobu (1597–1623), the son of (7) Kano Mitsunobu, as head of the Kano school and was given the artist’s name Ukyonoshin, which had formerly been used by Mitsunobu. Evidence of his talent at this young age is seen in a pair of six-panel folding screens depicting the Chinese themes of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and the Four Sages of Mt Shang (c. 1624; Kyoto, Shojuraigoji). In 1630 Yasunobu moved to Edo, where he served, like his brothers, as goyo eshi (painter-in-residence) at the shogunal court. He was granted a residence in the Nakabashi district of Edo, where he founded the Nakabashi Kano atelier, one of the four highest-ranking Kano studios (see KANO SCHOOL, §3). In 1634–5 Yasunobu collaborated with his brothers in the decoration of Toshogu, the Tokugawa shogunal mausoleum at Nikko (now in Tochigi Prefect.); the three brothers also executed the screen-and-wall paintings (shohekiga) in the Middle Shoin (1641) of the shinden (‘sleeping hall’) of Katsura Detached Palace (see KYOTO, §IV, 10) for Prince Toshitada (1619–62). In 1662 Yasunobu received the honorary religious title hogen (Eye of the Law), bestowed on artists of merit, and in 1663 he carried out an important painting commission, Portraits of the Great Chinese Sages (untraced) for the Ceremonial Hall (shishinden) in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. Yasunobu also executed a large number of folding screens and small-scale works that illustrate his judicious brushwork and close adherence to contemporary canons of the Kano School.
Part of the Kano family
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