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  • Born: 1420
  • Died: 1506
  • Japanese: 雪舟等楊 (Sesshuu Touyou)

Sesshû 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

  1. Michyo Morioka and Paul Berry, Modern Masters of Kyoto, Seattle Art Museum (2000), 19.