Kanà  Kazunobu (, 1816 â November 3, 1863) was a Japanese painter of the Kanà  school.
Kazunobu produced mainly Buddhist paintings and he is best known for his highly acclaimed Five Hundred Arhats. Some of his other surviving works are housed at the Senso-ji temple in Asakusa and the Shinshà Â-ji temple in Narita.
He did not use the surname Kanà  during his life, but rather signed with his wife's surname as Henmi Kazunobu () or with the art name Ken'yà «sai Kazunobu ().
is a set of 100 hanging scrolls created between 1854 and 1863, the year Kazunobu's death. The work depicts one hundred scenes from the lives of five arhats, disciples of the Buddha. It is widely considered one of the most important religious paintings from the Edo period, variously praised by its "unique style" and "strong characters in thick colors" and its "visually disturbing, original interpretation of the subject".
It was commissioned by the Zà Âjà Â-ji temple in Edo, the Tokugawa-sponsored main temple of the Jà Âdo-shà « buddhist sect, to which it now belong.
Kazunobu's Five Hundred Arhats was mostly overlooked through the twentieth century but it has attracted attention in recent years, with an exhibition of 2 of the scrolls in 2006 at the Tokyo National Museum, and the first ever exhibition of the complete set in 2011 at the Edo-Tokyo Museum. As of 2017, a changing set of 10 scrolls is displayed in the Zà Âjà Â-ji Treasure Gallery.
A second set of 50 scrolls of is owned by the Tokyo National Museum. Perhaps a test for the final version, each scroll is about a quarter of the size of the Zà Âjà Â-ji version, and it includes two scenes instead of one. The work was exhibited in its entirety in 2006.