A school of Japanese painters, active from the 9th century to the 15th, often credited with originating a truly Japanese painting style known as Yamatoe (see JAPAN, §VI, 3(iii) and 4(ii)). The genealogy of Kose painters (compiled in 1472) claims the Heian period (AD 794–1185) court painter KOSE NO KANAOKA as its founder. One branch ends with Yukitada ( fl c. 1352–82), while another includes members of the Honda painters’ guild of Nara. Although the genealogy is inaccurate, the activities of Kose painters are attested to by independent sources, and a few 14th-century paintings can be linked to them.