Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as uncovering new insights into influential ...

Kano Eitoku was a real person who lived and worked in the time contemporary to Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Unfortunately though, most of his paintings were in fact lost in the fighting of the ...

On Kano Masanobu's 'Bodhidharma in Red Robes' (late 15th century). Kano Masanobu, Bodhidharma in Red Robes (late 15th century). Image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work I picked is ...

Kiyohara Yukinobu struck out on a path in the late 17th century that few women in Japan had navigated, becoming an accomplished artist in the Kanō school — and, for a century after, was name ...