Gold is the ground on which power speaks.
天下の画事は我が家の業なり
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Kanō Eitoku
Born in Kyoto in 1543, Kano Eitoku led the Kano school and created monumental screen paintings for Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His gold-ground compositions defined the Azuchi-Momoyama era.
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