Tenshō Shūbun

Shubun (Japanese周文, dates unknown ) with the style name ( Azaña ) Tenshō (天 章) and the artist's name ( gō ) Ekkei (越 渓) was a Japanese painter and Zen monk in the Muromachi period.

Life

Shubun was a student of Jōsetsu, a monk - painter at Shokoku -ji in Kyoto and worked well even in this temple. He took part in the delegation that Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi sent to Korea the Yi Dynasty in the year 1423-24. At the time of the Shogun Yoshinori he became an official painter of the shogunate and produced landscapes and bird - and - flower paintings for the military nobility and murals for the temples of Kyoto. He was also sent to Shitenno -ji ( Osaka) to help in the production of a painting by Shōtoku Taishi, which had been lost to the temple in a fire in 1443. At this time he seems to have been appointed as treasurer ( Tsūkan ) of Shokoku -ji. Shubun played as a teacher of Sesshū and probably also Sotan (1413-1481) a central role in mediating the Chinese ink painting (水墨画, suibokuga ) to Japan.

Style

Like his teacher Jōsetsu Shubun was based largely on the academic painting of the Southern school, which - like the Chinese painting in general - real landscapes took as a suggestion, but efforts concentrated on the representation of the ideal landscape. Shūbuns individual style is most likely in his three -stage mountain shapes.

Due to its fame Shubun are many pictures attributed. After all, for example, Hanging scrolls as a combination of an ink drawing and added above poems (诗 画轴, shigajiku ), based on the signatures of the poet einordbar time.

Attributed works

• Mountain landscape (水色 峦 光 図, Suishoku to Ranko ). 108.2 × 32.7 cm, approx 1445th With lines of the Zen priest Kosei Ryuha, Shinden seihan and Itoko Shinchū. Nara National Museum ( National Treasure )
• Reading in the Bamboo Studio (竹 斎 読 书, Chikusai dokusho ). 134.8 × 33.3 cm, approx 1447th With a foreword by Jiku'un, and line of Kosei Ryuha and four other poets. Tokyo National Museum ( National Treasure )
• The ox and his herdsman (十 牛 図, Jūgyū -to ), a cycle of paintings, preserved in the museum of the Shokoku -ji, the Jōtenkaku Bijutsukan (承天 阁 美术馆)

Gallery

Landscape

Landscape (detail)

"Four Seasons" TNM ( Left folding screen )

"Four Seasons" TNM (Right folding screen )

" Reading in the Bamboo Studio" (detail)