Landscapes
- Person
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作者Sesshu Toyo
- Date
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制作年 Muromachi period (15th century)
- Title
- サンスイズ
- Measurements
- 各21.3×25.1
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Ink on paper
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000183-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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Keio University (Century Akao Collection)
- URL
- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Wood Art Rectangle Tints and shades Painting
Sesshu (1420-1506?) was a native of Bitchu (Okayama prefecture). He went to study under Shunrin Shuto, the abbot of the Shokoku-ji temple in Kyoto. Following his initiation under the Buddhist name Toyo, he remained at the temple as the priest in charge of greeting important visitors. During this period, he acquired a piece of calligraphy by the Chinese priest Qushi Fanqi which contained the two characters Xue-zhou or Ses-shu as pronounced in Japanese. Meaning simply ‘boat in the snow’, he had his fellow priest Ryuko Shinkei write the dissertation of the two characters Ses-shu, and thereafter assumed the alternate name Sesshu. Later on, upon kindness of the Ouchi family ruling the Suoh district (Yamaguchi prefecture), he lived there and engaged in painting. In 1467 at the age of Forty-eight, he went over to Ming-dynasty China aboard the ship of the Japanese ambassador. There he visited the Tiangtong-shan, a center of Zen Buddhism in China, and was given the highest position of the temple. In Beijing, he won high fame for painting on walls of the Board of Rites of Chinese government. He came back to Japan in summer of 1469, when he was fifty. Famous among his works of painting are the “Long Landscape Scroll” (preserved at Mohri Museum), “Haboku Landscape” (Tokyo National Museum), “Bridge of Heaven” (Kyoto Natinal Museum) and others. The two paintings shown here, though small in dimension, are remarkable for their beautiful depiction of nature using ink of dark and light shades in the unique technique.
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- Title (EN)
- Landscapes
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 2幅
- Attachments
- 鑑定書（狩野探索）ほか
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