Artworks

Landscape in the haboku technique

Artwork · Sesshū Tōyō · 1495 · kakemono · Tokyo National Museum

A haboku landscape by Sesshū Tōyō, given in 1495 to his pupil Josui Sōen of Engakuji as a farewell gift and a kind of certificate that his training was complete. Above it Sesshū wrote of his experiences in China and of Josetsu and Shūbun as his models; six Kyoto Zen monks added colophons. With incredible economy, splashed ink suggests land, trees, mountains, two figures in a boat and a saké house with its flag. 1 Mason 2005, p. 227, fig. 261. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.