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Biography Ganku, Kishi 岸駒 岸 (1749 - 1838)

The first part of Ganku's life is less well documented than the second part. Both 1749 and 1756 are given as his birthdates. It is thought that he went to Kyoto to study painting in 1773. It is certain he became an official of the Imperial Household, serving Prince Arisugawa, and was appointed Echizen-no-suke, honorary governor of Echizen in 1804. From 1809 to 1813 he lived in Kanazawa, and in the last decades of his life he lived in Iwakura, North of Kyoto.
Artistically speaking he first started Kano painting, then painting in the Chinese manner. Later, under the influence of the Maruyama and Shijô schools of painting he developed his own style of painting, a rough and vigorous style, and founded the Kishi school. He is mostly admired for his animal paintings, and he specialized in tiger paintings. He had a number of gifted pupils, Kishi Gantai, Kishi Ganryô (who was later adopted by him) and Kishi Renzan, to name but a few.

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See also paintingss from Gantai, Kishi 岸岱 佐伯 (1782-1865)
See also paintings from Renzan, Kishi 連山 岸 (1805-1859)

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