Kanō Tan'yū

Kanō Tan'yū

1602 — 1674

Japanese artist (1602-1674)

Kanō Tan'yū was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. One of the foremost Kanō painters of the Tokugawa period, many of the best known Kanō works today are by Tan'yū.

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Works

Bird, Flower and Various Chinese Figure

Bird, Flower and Various Chinese Figure

Kanō Tan'yū Yale University Art Gallery
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Blossoming Plum Branch and Moon

Blossoming Plum Branch and Moon

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Broken-Ink Landscape (Haboku sansui zu)

Broken-Ink Landscape (Haboku sansui zu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Cloudy Mountain

Cloudy Mountain

Kanō Tan'yū Yale University Art Gallery
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu) in Two Volumes

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu) in Two Volumes

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings in Two Volumes

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings in Two Volumes

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. I

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. I

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. II

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. II

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Flowering Peonies and Descending Bird

Flowering Peonies and Descending Bird

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Four Sleepers

Four Sleepers

Kanō Tan'yū Princeton University Art Museum
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Hotei

Hotei

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Landscape of the Four Seasons (Shiki sansui zu)

Landscape of the Four Seasons (Shiki sansui zu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Landscapes of the Four Seasons

Landscapes of the Four Seasons

Kanō Tan'yū Princeton University Art Museum
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Phoenixes by Paulownia Trees

Phoenixes by Paulownia Trees

Kanō Tan'yū
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Sakyamuni Emerging from the Mountain

Sakyamuni Emerging from the Mountain

Kanō Tan'yū Yale University Art Gallery
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Sketches of the Ten Kings of Hell (Jūō zu)

Sketches of the Ten Kings of Hell (Jūō zu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Tan’yu shukuzu (Sketches by Tan'yu)

Tan’yu shukuzu (Sketches by Tan'yu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen) 1600c

Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Fisherman 1600c

Fisherman

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gibbons Reaching for the Moon 1600c

Gibbons Reaching for the Moon

Kanō Tan'yū Cleveland Museum of Art
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Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute 1600c

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Landscape in Moonlight 1600c

Landscape in Moonlight

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Landscape in Moonlight 1600c

Landscape in Moonlight

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Landscape in Moonlight 1600c

Landscape in Moonlight

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sparrow and Bamboo 1600c

Sparrow and Bamboo

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment 1600c

The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Water-Moon Kannon 1600c

Water-Moon Kannon

Kanō Tan'yū Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Ducks and Reeds 1650

Ducks and Reeds

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Squirrel on Bamboo 1650

Squirrel on Bamboo

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Summer Landscape 1662

Summer Landscape

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Winter Landscape 1662

Winter Landscape

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Portrait of Emperor Shennong 1665

Portrait of Emperor Shennong

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sketch for a Painting of Mi Fu Inscribing a Poem on a Rock 1665

Sketch for a Painting of Mi Fu Inscribing a Poem on a Rock

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sketch for a Painting of Scholars at the Game of Go 1665

Sketch for a Painting of Scholars at the Game of Go

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen) 1670

Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)

Kanō Tan'yū Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cluster of Grapes

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Dragon and tiger

Kanō Tan'yū Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Dragon and Waves

Kanō Tan'yū The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Eight Views Landscape

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Hatsuboku Landscape

Kanō Tan'yū Yale University Art Gallery
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Landscape with Bridge and Fishermen

Kanō Tan'yū Yale University Art Gallery
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Section of Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Kanō Tan'yū The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Set of 3 Connoisseur's Sketchbooks by Kanō Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu)

Kanō Tan'yū Harvard Art Museums
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Sketches of Chinese and Japanese Paintings

Kanō Tan'yū Indianapolis Museum of Art
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The Buddhist Deity Hotei Poling a Skiff with Children at Play

Kanō Tan'yū The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Tiger among Bamboo

Kanō Tan'yū The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Tiger and Bamboo

Kanō Tan'yū Indianapolis Museum of Art
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1600c

Dragon

Kanō Tan'yū Worcester Art Museum
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1600c

Dragon and bamboo, with inscription after Sesshū Tōyo

Kanō Tan'yū Art Gallery of South Australia
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1668

Mount Fuji

Kanō Tan'yū John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
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1668

Mount Yoshino in Spring

Kanō Tan'yū John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
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1668

The Tatsuda River in Autumn

Kanō Tan'yū John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
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