Kanō Tomonobu

He used the art names Shunsen (春川) and Isseisai (一青斎).

Tomonobu apprenticed under the official painter for the shōgun (the oku-eshi) in 1859, at age 16.

[1] On the suggestion of his brother-in-law Kawada Hiromu, the governor of Sagami Province, who had travelled to France as part of a shogunal delegation, Tomonobu studied Western painting at the Foreign Studies Centre for two years beginning in 1863.

He helped the American art historian Ernest Fenollosa in his studies of Japanese art and introduced Fenollosa to the painter Kanō Hōgai.

[1] Tomonobu worked at the Ministry of Popular Affairs in 1870.