Detail: Sometimes extravagant, but sometimes refined. It was the Kanō school artists that always played a leading role in the Muromachi to Edo period painting world, while responding to the commissions and the trend of the times. Learning from tradition of past artistic expressions, they were not only prominent artists, but also intellectuals well read in Japanese and Chinese painting history. This exhibition will show their gracious pieces together with works old and new which the Kanō artists must have come across, trying to approach the elements they saw and that supported their creative activity.