Painting of the RealmWinner of the John Whitney Hall Book Prize Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award In this eloquent and far ranging work, Yukio Lippit explores the seventeenth century consolidation of Japanese painting by the famed Kano painting house, whose style evolved from the legacy of Zen monk painters of the medieval era and intertwined Chinese with native Japanese practices. Legitimacy was transmitted from master to disciple in a manner similar to that