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context: painting
Schools of Art
There are two of each of the different kinds of schools here. Kano and Tosa were the major hereditary schools, and lasted for many centuries. Maruyama-Shijo and Hasegawa were much shorter-lived, smaller-scale affairs, each centred around one man and a small number of followers. The other two, Rimpa and Nanga, were not schools at all in the usual sense, but more like the movements that generally characterise Western art, where a bunch of like-minded people come together - though being Japan, it's not quite the same.