Kanoite is a light pinkish brown silicate mineral that is found in metamorphic rocks.

Kanoite is a rare mineral which was found in Tatehira mine, Kumaishi, Oshima Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan in 1977.

In the type locality kanoite occurs along a joint that cuts a pyroxmangite-cummingtonite metamorphic rock in a manganese ore deposit.

It was named to honor Hiroshi Kano, a petrology professor at Akita University in Japan.

[2] It has also been reported from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, the Semail Ophiolite in Oman, and the Balmat–Edwards zinc district, Saint Lawrence County, New York.