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Ink painting of Tōfukuji

Artwork · Sesshū Tōyō · 15th century · kakemono · Tōfuku-ji Temple

A view by Sesshū Tōyō of Tōfuku-ji Temple, one of the first Zen temples of Kyoto, founded in 1236 with the support of the regent Kujō Michiie and completed in 1255; Enni became its abbot in 1243. It shows the earlier complex in the foothills of the Eastern Hills — the central buildings on one axis from the sanmon to the abbot’s residence, the stream and its bridge. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 213–214, fig. 246. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.