Artists

Mu Qi

牧谿

Artist

Chinese Chan monk-painter of the thirteenth century, a scholar who took the tonsure and founded the temple Liutongsi near Hangzhou. Japanese monks brought many of his paintings home; no other Chinese artist had such an impact on Japanese ink painting. 1 Mason 2005, p. 223. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.