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The Zen (in Chinese, Chan) Buddhist sect, which originated in China, stresses meditation as a means of attaining enlightenment. After Chinese monks established the first Zen monasteries in Japan under the patronage of the new warrior elite, Zen temples fostered the styles and themes of Chinese ink painting. Ink landscapes such as this one became a major genre of Japanese painting during the Muromachi period (1392-1573).
Shubun (fl. ca. 1420-ca. 1463), a Zen Buddhist monk of high rank at the Shokokuji monastery in Kyoto, was considered the preeminent Japanese painter of the second quarter of the 15th century. His principal artistic achievement was representing limitless space in painting. Although many ink paintings, especially landscapes, have been attributed to Shubun, there is little scholarly agreement on the authorship of surviving works associated with his name.
- Published References
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- Zaigai Nihon no Shiho [Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections]. 10 vols., Tokyo, 1979 - 1980. vol. 3: pp. 126-127, pl. 30.
- Zaigai hiho [(Japanese Paintings in Western Collections]. 3 vols., Tokyo. vol. 2, part. I, pl. 79.
- Kyoto Bijutsu shu. no. 45, 1918. .
- Commission Imperiale du Japon. Histoire de l'Art du Japon: ouvrage pub. par la Commission Impériale du Japon à l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1900. Exh. cat. Paris. cat. 2, pl. XLII.
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- Japanese Art
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