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Kanō Naizen

Kanō Naizen (1570–1616) was a Japanese painter.

Also recorded as Kanō Shigesato · Naizen · Ichiō · Kyūz401o

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Kano Naizen's "Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Screen" circa 1600, from the Kobe City Museum Collection. This six-fold byōbu (lacquer and gilded screen) shows foreigners arriving at a shore of Japan during the Nanban trade. The ship depicts a Nanban ship arriving at a Japanese port after a voyage from a foreign country, unloading traded goods, a group of Capitan's who landed, Jesuit missionarie

Kanō Naizen · Google Arts Culture — namban-screens-right-hand-screen-kan%C3%B4-naizen/CAEfKzD1vqAV8A , more information: https://www.kobecitymuseum.jp/collection/detail?heritage=365028 · Public domain

Biography

Born in 1570, died in Kyōto in 1616.

Training under Kanō Shōei is recorded.

Work by Kanō Naizen is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kobe City Museum.

Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu, early 17th century, by Kanō Naizen

Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu, early 17th century, by Kanō Naizen

Kano Naizen · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015

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  • Kyōto
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