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.
A renowned Japanese woodblock print artist and teacher of Hishikawa Moronobu, who is commonly credited with establishing the ukiyo-e style. Unfortunately, no authentic works by this artist are known to have survived or been produced, leaving him a mystery and only identifiable through the pseudonym given to him by scholar Richard Lane, based on his active years during the Kanbun era (1661–1673).