”Oshie Pasted Screen”

Kanō Shinkichi

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Artist Name: Kanō Shinkichi
Title: ”Oshie Pasted Screen”
Dimensions: (Right Screen) Image: 131.5 × 308.9 cm / Overall: 172.7 × 371.1 cm
(Left Screen) Image: 132.2 × 309.5 cm / Overall: 172.7 × 371.5 cm
Medium: Ink, Color, and Gold on Silk
Description: This work is a pair of six-panel folding screens in the oshie-hari (pasted relief) technique by Nobuyoshi Kano. Across the twelve panels, a wide variety of motifs—figures, birds and flowers, and landscapes—are depicted.

In the bird-and-flower compositions, such as chrysanthemums with long-tailed birds, the geometric structuring of the picture plane and the pronounced decorative quality reveal clear traces of training in the Kyoto Kano tradition.

Nobuyoshi Kano (dates unknown), also known as Iori Kano and San’eki, was an early Edo-period painter and the second son of Sanraku Kano (1559–1635), founder of the Kyoto Kano lineage.

It has been confirmed that the later imprisonment of Sansetsu Kano (1590–1651) was caused by debts incurred by his brother-in-law Iori (Nobuyoshi). For this reason, Nobuyoshi long remained a relatively overlooked figure within the Kano school tradition.