e-dokoro

Updated: May 7, 2025

That official patronage was extended to these great men is proved by the fact that Mitsunobu was named president of the E-dokoro, or Court Academy of Painting; and Motonobu received the priestly rank of hogen. Industries in general suffered from the continual wars of the Ashikaga epoch, but the art of forging swords flourished beyond all precedent.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era