was a Japanese woodblock print artist and mentor to Hishikawa Moronobu, who is generally considered to have founded the genre known as ukiyo-e. As no signed works by the Kanbun Master are known to survive (or to have ever been made), he remains anonymous and known only by the pseudonym assigned him by scholar Richard Lane on account of his having flourished during the Kanbun era (1661–1673) on the Japanese Imperial calendar.
was a Japanese woodblock print artist and instructor to Hishikawa Moronobu, who is generally regarded as having pioneered the style known as ukiyo-e. As no signed works by the Kanbun Master are believed to have existed or been created, he remains unknown and recognized only through the pseudonym assigned to him by scholar Richard Lane due to his active period during the Kanbun era (1661–1673) on the Japanese Imperial calendar.