Japan: 'Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses', a hanging scroll by Kanō Masanobu (c.1434-1530).

Kanō Masanobu (c.1434–1530, Kyoto) 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). 'Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses', a designated National Treasure of Japan, is a 15th century painting mounted as a hanging scroll by Kanō Masanobu that depicts the 11th century Confucian scholar Zhou Maoshu in a boat floating on a lake with lotuses.

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