Lit. Deep Probes into the Skill of Paintings. A mid-18th-century six-volume history of the *Kano-ha 狩野派 by Ōoka Shunboku 大岡春卜 (1680-1765). Dated 1740 in the forward, Gakō senran provided a compendium of Kano techniques, subjects, paintings, and artists, all compiled by a Kano disciple. The first volume charts the lineage of the Kano school and discusses famous paintings of screens in and around Kyoto *rakuchū rakugai-zu 洛中洛外図; the second volume involves deals with painting figures and includes a copy of a scroll of horses and cranes by Kano Tan'yū 狩野探幽 (1602-74); the third volume presents copies of Tan'yū's landscapes and bird-and-flower paintings; the fourth volume includes copies of Tan'yū's Japanese and Chinese figure paintings; the fifth volume features Japanese and Chinese patterns as well as notes in authenticity and seals of old artists; the sixth volume discusses the lineage of modern painters including their seals. Gakō senran is published in Sakazaki Tan 坂崎坦, ed. Nihon garon taikan 日本画論大観 2, 43-64.