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Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟 等楊, c. 1420 – August 26, 1506), also known simply as Sesshū (雪舟), was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting. Initially inspired by Chinese landscapes, Sesshū's work holds a distinctively Japanese style that reflects Zen Buddhist aesthetics. [ 1 ]
In 1468, at the age of 48, Sesshū embarked on a trip to Ming China to study contemporary modes and styles of landscape paintings. Though initially studying under the auspices of Tenshō Shūbun and Josetsu, the expedition and visits to vast regions and cities from Beijing and Ningbo helped expanded and developed the styles that would be utilized in Autumn and Winter Landscapes.
The full hanging scroll of Broken Ink Landscape by Sesshū Tōyō, 1495, including dedicatory inscription by the artist, and six poems by Zen Buddhist monks. Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, haboku sansui-zu, Broken Ink Landscape) is a splashed-ink landscape painting on a hanging scroll.
Landscape by Sesshū is one of the most securely authenticated works of the Japanese Muromachi period artist Sesshū (1420–1506). It is an ink wash landscape ( 山水図 ) in the private collection of the Ōhara family in Kurashiki , Okayama Prefecture , Japan.
Sesshū Tōyō: With inscriptions by the artist and six poet-monks from Gozan Zen temples in Kyoto: Muromachi period, 1495 Hanging scroll, splashed ink on paper, 148.6 cm × 32.7 cm (58.5 in × 12.9 in) Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
Sesshū Tōyō (Japanese: 雪舟 等楊; Oda Tōyō since 1431, also known as Tōyō, Unkoku, or Bikeisai; 1420 – 26 August 1506) was the most prominent Japanese master of ink and wash painting from the middle Muromachi period.
Splashed-ink Landscape (破墨山水, Haboku sansui) by Sesshū Tōyō, 1495 Sesshu's landscape in hatsuboku style. Haboku (破墨) and Hatsuboku (溌墨) are both painting techniques employed in suiboku (ink-wash painting) in China and Japan, as seen in landscape paintings, involving an abstract simplification of forms and freedom of brushwork.
The foremost artists of the Muromachi period are the priest-painters Shūbun and Sesshū. Shūbun, a monk at the Kyoto temple of Shōkoku-ji, created in the painting Reading in a Bamboo Grove (1446) a realistic landscape with deep recession into space. Sesshū, unlike most artists of the period, was able to journey to China and study Chinese ...