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Biography of Kano Eitoku
Name: Kano Eitoku
Birth Date: 1543
Death Date: 1590
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist, painter
Kano Eitoku
Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) was a Japanese painter of the Momoyama period. Working in the bold, colorful style typical of the decorative screen painting of the 16th century, he was the leading artist of his day and one of the most influential Japanese painters.A member of the illustrious Kano family, Eitoku was born in Kyoto. He received his training under his father, Kano Shoei, and his grandfather, Kano Motonobu, who was the leading painter of the first half of the 16th century. Eitoku's first major work was the decoration of the Jukoin sanctuary at Daitokuji, a famous Kyoto Zen temple, a task he undertook with his father in 1566. Eitoku's fame soon spread, and he became the favorite artist of Oda Nobunaga, the military dictator of Japan, who gave him several commissions. Among those were a set of screens depicting the city of Kyoto and the decoration of Nobunaga's splendid castle at …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Good examples of Eitoku's work in this medium are the 16 sliding screen paintings, or fusuma, which the artist executed early in his career for the Jukoin in Kyoto. The subjects represented--such as birds and flowers in a landscape setting and the "Four Accomplishments"--are Chinese in origin, and the monochrome ink style is derived from Chinese sources through his grandfather, Kano Motonobu. Yet the way in which Eitoku handled his brush with broad, vigorous strokes, stressing pattern rather than space, is very different from the earlier painting of either the Chinese or the Japanese, showing the artist's originality. Further Reading Kano Eitoku's work is discussed in Pageant of Japanese Art, vol. 2: Painting (1952), edited by staff members of the Tokyo National Museum; Robert Treat Paine and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of Japan (1955; rev. ed. 1960); and Terukazu Akiyama, Japanese Painting (1961).Kano, Eitoku, Kano Eitoku, Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1977.
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