Daruma Makimono

A painting of Daruma by Shorin, an art name used by Kano Enshin (1828 - 1888), who came to Edo at age nineteen to study under Kano Shosenin at the Kobikicho Kano studio. He painted Buddhist themes in a reformed Kano manner and was prominent in re-establishing Japanese painting during the Meiji period, at which time the influence of western style painting was being felt. He worked to found the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, which finally opened in 1889, the year after his death.