Kanō Takanobu

[3] When Kanō Naganobu (1577–1654)—Eitoku's brother—moved at the behest of the recently ascendent Tokugawa shogunate to its new administrative capital of Edo (modern Tokyo) around 1610–15, Takanobu remained in Kyoto, where the commissions he received indicate he was a favourite of the court.

[4] The twenty panels depicting thirty-two Chinese sages in the throne room of the shishin-den are attributed to Takanobu.

[6] In 1617 Naganobu's eldest son Tan'yū was called to Edo and made a goyō eshi [ja], an exclusive position painting for the shogunate.

Another son, Kanō Naonobu (1607–50), succeeded as head of the Kyoto branch upon Takanobu's death in 1618, though he too moved to Edo[7] in 1630.

[8] The line continued under Mitsunobu's son Sadanobu, who died without an heir in 1623 but had adopted Takanobu's youngest son Yasunobu, who thus continued the Kyoto line until he also was made goyō eshi and moved to Edo, though he maintained his claim as head of the Kyoto branch.