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Kanō Naganobu

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26 December 1654

Kanō Naganobu

Kanō Naganobu (狩野長信, 1577 – 26 December 1654) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school.

Naganobu was the youngest brother of the Kanō school's head, Kanō Eitoku. Naganobu completed numerous commissions for the court in Kyoto, including at the Imperial Palace, and started his own line of the Kanō school. He was the first major Kanō painter to move from Kyoto to Edo (modern Tokyo) as the Tokugawa shogunate consolidaated control of the country and set up its government there. Naganobu is speculated to have made the move before Tokugawa Ieyasu's death in 1615, possibly as early as 1605, and may have worked first at Ieyasu's castle in Sunpu Domain (in modern Shizuoka). His workshop in Edo officially served the Tokugawa shogunate under the title goyō eshi (御用絵師).

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Kanō Naganobu Wikipedia