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The Kano school of painting was founded by Kano Masanobu (1434–1530), and its greatest influence was during the Momoyama and Edo periods. Kano artists combined a Chinese academic style of ink painting with decorative elements and the use of polychrome derived from Japanese yamato-e. Official artists to the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period, Kano masters dominated Japanese painting from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century.