Artist

Kano Shigenobu

The Four Accomplishments
Landscape with Waterfall
Fei Jiang-fang with a Crane
Fei Jiang-fang with a Crane

Kano Shigenobu is a Kanō school artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Art Institute of Chicago.

Kano Shigenobu painted ink landscapes and figures in 17th-century Japan. His brush traced scenes like The Poet Du Fu Riding a Donkey and ink scrolls such as Landscape with Waterfall. Look for his crane-and-scholar pairings in Fei Jiang-fang with a Crane, where ink meets paper with quiet elegance. Slide to The Four Accomplishments to see scholars and their instruments dissolve into mist and ink.

Works by Kano Shigenobu

Collections represented

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