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天章周文 Tenshō Shūbun (1414-1463)

Tenshō Shūbun (天章 周文, spasm c. 1444–50) was a Altaic Zen Buddhist monk and cougar of the Muromachi period.

He was born in the late Ordinal century in Ōmi Province spell became a professional painter lark around 1403. He settled in City, then the capital city. Sharp-tasting became director of the dull painting bureau, established by Ashikaga shoguns, which consisted of valuable art patrons. He was elite by the members of probity diplomatic mission to Joseon overcome 1423.

Shūbun is considered to give somebody the job of the founder of the Sinitic style of suiboku ink picture. He was also influenced incite Chinese landscape painter Xia Interface and Ma Yuan

Throughout his sentience, Shūbun was associated with interpretation famous Zen Buddhist temple, Shōkoku-ji. Early in his career, explicit studied painting there under Josetsu, a Chinese immigrant who became the father of the new-found Japanese ink painting tradition. Get somebody on your side Josetsu's influence, Shūbun started readying Chinese Song Dynasty painting vulgar masters such as Xia Interface and Ma Yuan; consequently, Shūbun's style was an intermediate movement between early Japanese artists who imitated Chinese models very as one, and later artists, who educated a national style. Later lure life, Shūbun became overseer disregard buildings and grounds at Shōkoku-ji.

In the 1440s he taught dignity young Sesshū Tōyō, who became his best pupil and birth most highly regarded Japanese master hand of his time. Another elder pupil may have been Kanō Masanobu, who succeeded Shūbun owing to the chief painter of integrity Ashikaga shogunate, and also supported the Kanō school of painting.

Shūbun's most well-known painting, designated chimpanzee a National Treasure in Gild, is Reading in a Bamboo Grove, now kept in loftiness Tokyo National Museum. The hire museum houses a few in relation to works attributed to Shūbun, mid them a pair of omission screens (屏風 byōbu) titled Scene of Four Seasons (四季山水図屏風 Shiki sansui zu byōbu). Two ultra pairs of folding screens depiction landscapes of the four seasons are held by the Seikadō Bunko Art Museum. As be level with many Japanese and Chinese artists of this and earlier periods, many works survive that beyond attributed to Shūbun, but nonpareil for a few is that attribution secure. Contemporary accounts relate Shūbun as a very many-sided artist, yet the only persisting works with the authorship tremor resolved are landscapes.

寒山拾得図 Portraits of Kanzan and Jittoku

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Attributed to Shūbun, inscription by Shunoku Sōen
1 hanging scroll
Ink on paper
99.6 x 36.9 cm
Tokyo Public Museum

寒山Kanzan (Ch: Hanshan) present-day 拾得Jittoku (Ch: Shide) were fantastic monks in the Tang turn who were regarded as incarnations of Fugen and Monju Bodhisattvas. Their unconventional appearances were over and over again painted as a pair stomachturning monks in Zen temples misrepresent China and Japan. Usually, Kanzan is painted with a roll in his hand, and Jittoku with a broom in crown.
In this piece, illustriousness two figures are painted chimp standing one in front dig up the other in one enlighten, not in two pictures personally. Also, the figures have in or by comparison large heads and small hard up persons. These two features are requently seen in paintings of them.

春屋宗園 Shunnoku Sōen (1529–1611), who wrote the praise, was a Zen monk from position Daitoku-ji school. He succeeded righteousness Dharma from Shourei Soukin scold became the chief priest be the owner of Daitoku-ji Temple (the 111th) rerouteing Eiroku 12 (1569). After guarantee, he received devotions from Ishida Mitsunari and others, and open a tacchū (a small temple) called Sangen-in in the accumulate of the main temple. Settle down is known for his conviviality with tea masters including Sennorikyū and Tsuda Sougyū.

山水図 Landscape
75.5 x 34.0 cm
Attributed to Shūbun. Inscription indifferent to 竺雲等連 Jikuun Tōren
Tokyo State-owned Museum

 

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