Artist

Kano Einō

Portrait of Kano Einō
Portrait of Kano Einō

Japanese, 1631–1697

Kano Einō was a Japanese Kanō school artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art, most of them ink works. Kano Einō was born in Heian-kyō.

Kanō Einō (狩野 永納, 1631–1697) was a Japanese painter of the Kyō-ganō sub-school of the Kanō school of painting. He became head of the Kyō-ganō upon the death of his father Kanō Sansetsu, and his grandfather was the Kyō-ganō's founder Kanō Sanraku. Einō compiled the Honchō Gashi (本朝畫史, "Japanese painting history"), the earliest serious art-historical work in Japan.

Works by Kano Einō

Collections represented

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