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Kanō Masanobu
Kanō Masanobu
Credit:
Kanō Masanobu
Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses
, a designated
National Treasure of Japan
, is a 15th century painting mounted as a
hanging scroll
by
Kanō Masanobu
that depicts the 11th century
Confucian
scholar
Zhou Maoshu
in a boat floating on a lake with
lotuses
. Kanō was the chief painter of the
Ashikaga shogunate
and is generally considered the founder of the
Kanō school
of painting, which would become the dominant style of painting until the
Meiji period
.
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