Kanō Eitoku

Description: (Japanese Painter)
Japanese painter of the Azuchi–Momoyama period Kanō Eitoku was the grandson of Kanō Motonobu, the patriarch and founder of the Kanō school of Japanese painting. His works consisted of the signature gold-leaf ground, with birds, trees, and flowers as motifs. Chinese Lions remains one of his best-known folding-screen painting.

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Birthday February 16, 1543 (Aquarius)
Died on October 12, 1590
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