Earlier this year I visited Kano Motonobu (1476-1559) and Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) grave at Myokakuji graveyard in Kyoto. Eitoku did artwork for Nobunaga such as Rakuchu Rakugai folding screen and paintings for Azuchi Castle. This is a short passage from
The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (p. 254) "In a twelve-mat room on the west side, Nobunaga commissioned Kano Eitoku to paint plum trees in black ink (sumie)." Unfortunately, Eitoku worked himself to death which cut his life short. Both Motonobu and Eitoku were from Kyoto. Motonobu was Eitoku's grandfather.
Tenka no tame!
