Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan

by Yukio Lippit

Winner of the John Whitney Hall Book Prize

Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

In this eloquent and far-ranging work, Yukio Lippit explores the seventeenth-century consolidation of Japanese painting by the famed Kano painting house, whose style evolved from the legacy of Zen monk-painters of the medieval era and intertwined Chinese with native Japanese practices. Legitimacy was transmitted from master to disciple in a manner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991542
• ISBN13: 9780295991542
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher