Brief Biography-Kano Motonobu was a disciple of his father, Masanobu. Like his father, he painted in the Chinese Kanga monochrome style. However, he also painted in the Japanese Yamato-e (Japanese pictures) technique, which the Tosa School primarily painted; they were official artists of the imperial court. Yamato-e began in the Heian period, from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. Motonobu was responsible for establishing the Kanō style, a merging of Kanga and Yamato-e styles that lasted through the Muromachi Period.