Japan: 'Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses'. Hanging scroll painting by Kanō Masanobu (c. 1434 - 2 August 1530), 15th century. 'Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses' depicts the 11th century Confucian scholar Zhou Maoshu in a boat floating on a lake with lotuses. Kanō Masanobu was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and is generally considered the founder of the Kanō school of painting. The Kanō school was a style of painting that maintained dominance over 400 years from Masanobu's time up through the Meiji Restoration (1868).

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