Artist

Kanō Yasunobu

Portrait of Kanō Yasunobu
Portrait of Kanō Yasunobu

Japan

Kanō Yasunobu is a Japan Baroque artist. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kanō Yasunobu (狩野 安信, 10 January 1614 – 1 October 1685) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting during the Edo period. He was the third son of Kanō Takanobu, who had been head of the school, and succeeded Kanō Sadanobu as head of the Kyoto branch in 1623 until he joined his brothers in . Yasunobu was the youngest brother of Kanō Tan'yū, one of the most prominent painters of the Kanō school. His best remembered work is the Gadō Yōketsu, a Kanō school history and training manual. He also worked under the art names Eishin (永真) and Bokushinsai (牧心斎).

Works by Kanō Yasunobu

Collections represented

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