Object

雪舟筆山水図(左幅)

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Date
制作年 AD15
Title
セッシュウヒツサンスイズ
Materials, techniques and shape
紙本墨画
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Depository
Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
Ref. number
AW-CEN-000183-0002
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Creditline

慶應義塾(センチュリー赤尾コレクション)

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Brown Rectangle Textile Art Font

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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Ref. number
AW-CEN-000183-0002
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CC BY
Creditline

慶應義塾(センチュリー赤尾コレクション)

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license

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Keio Museum Commons
Campus Mita
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Art

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OPEN DATADESIGN

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Weights and quantities
Quantity 1幅
Attachments
鑑定書(狩野探索)ほか

Provenance

亨保12年未2月3日小笠原遠江守様占拝領

Physical description

Weights and quantities
Quantity 1幅
Attachments
鑑定書(狩野探索)ほか

Provenance

亨保12年未2月3日小笠原遠江守様占拝領