Kano Sansetsu
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was a Japanese
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 painter also known as Kanō Heishiro.

Sansetsu was apprenticed to Kanō Sanraku
Kano Sanraku
was a Japanese painter also known as Kimura Heizō, Shūri, Mitsuyori, and Sanraku.His father was the painter Kimura Nagamitsu who flourished circa 1570....

, married his daughter, and was adopted by him after the death of Sanraku's eldest son. Sansetsu became the leader of the Kanō school
Kano school
The ' is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting until the Meiji period.It was founded by Kanō Masanobu , a contemporary of Sesshū and student of Shūbun...

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Works

  • Dragon in the clouds, hanging scroll, ink on paper.
  • Huang Chuping, hanging scroll, ink on paper.
  • Laozi, one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper.
  • Mount Fuji, hanging scroll, ink and gold on paper.
  • The old plum ca. 1645, four sliding door panels (fusuma
    Fusuma
    In Japanese architecture, fusuma are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about wide by tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are two or three centimeters thick...

    ), ink, color, gold leaf on paper.
  • Seabirds on a winter coast, screen, color, India ink, and gold on paper. collection hosotsugi, Kyoto.
  • The ten snow incidents, one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and light color on paper.
  • Transcendent, hanging scroll, ink on paper.
  • Two chickens on thatched roof, hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper.
  • Xiwangmu (Seiobo), the Queen Mother of the West and Mu Wang (Bokuo), one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper.

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