Polities

Southern Song

南宋

Polity · dynasty · 1127–1279

The Song dynasty after the loss of the north in 1126, with its capital at Hangzhou until the Mongol conquest of 1279: the first great age of landscape painting by scholar-officials and of Chan monk-painters, the model of Japanese Zen culture. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 169, 219. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.