(12) Kano Naonobu
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(12) Kano Naonobu
(b Heian [now Kyoto], 1607; d 1650). Brother of (11) Kano Tan'yu and (13) Kano Yasunobu. After the death of their father Kano Takanobu (1571-1618), (9) Kano Koi instructed Naonobu and Yasunobu in painting. Since Tan'yu had already become an official painter-in-residence (goyo eshi) to the shogunate in Edo (now Tokyo), his brother Naonobu inherited his father's estate. In 1625, Naonobu, along with Tan'yu, Yasunobu, Koi and other Kano artists, worked on the sliding-door ( fusuma) paintings of Nijo Castle (see KYOTO,
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