Brief Biography-Fujiwara no Nobuzane was born c. 1175 in Kyoto. He was a portraitist and poet of the Kamakura period. Nobuzane was the son of Fujiwara no Takanobu, an acclaimed portraitist, and his brother Juntokuin no Hyoe no Naishi was a renowned tanka poet, a poet of short poems. His son Tametsugu and his grandson Tamenobu also became painters. His most famous work was the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets scroll. Like his father, He painted in the style of Nise-e, described as a realistic likeness painting with simplistic lines to capture character.