mitsunobu

Updated: May 6, 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

Among his pupils was Shubun, and the latter's followers included such illustrious names as Sotan, Sesshu, Shinno; Masanbbu, and Motonobu. It is to this day a question whether Japan ever produced greater artists than Sesshu and Motonobu. To the same galaxy belongs Tosa no Mitsunobu, the founder of the Tosa school as Motonobu was of the Kano.

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