Artworks

Votive horse painting

Artwork · attributed to Kanō Hideyori · 1569 · ema · Kamo Shrine (Shimane)

A votive plaque (ema) of a prize horse — daimyo pledged such paintings at Shinto shrines, a tradition going back to the horses and bulls of Tang emperors and Japanese insei. Dated 1569 and signed “Kanō Jibu Shōyū”, the court rank of Kanō Hideyori, son of Kanō Motonobu, the only Kanō master to hold it then. Mason’s caption places it at the Kamo Shrine in Shimane, his text at the Kamigamo Shrine. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 254–255, fig. 293. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.