Sesshu
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Jump to navigationJump to searchSesshû Tôyô was one of the most famous/prominent ink landscape painters of the Muromachi period.
A number of his paintings are signed Nihon zenjin Tôyô ("Tôyô, Zen man of Japan"); it is believed this may designate works composed while Sesshû was sojourning in China, in order to identify himself as Japanese, and distinguish his works from those composed by Chinese painters.[1]
References
- ↑ Michyo Morioka and Paul Berry, Modern Masters of Kyoto, Seattle Art Museum (2000), 19.
