Chinese impact on Japanese Zen painting style

1.    MA-XIA Chinese Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) court-style of painting, named after the artists Ma Yuan 马远 and Xia Gui 夏桂

2.    MUQI 牧谿 (active late 13th century; Japanese:   Mokkei). CHINESE PAINTER AND MONK WHOSE WORKS WERE IMPORTED TO KYOTO.

•  Six Persimmons.   Hanging scroll, ink, silk.   Daitoku-ji, Kyoto

haboku 破墨:   broken ink

•  Crane, Kannon, and Gibbon triptych.   Three hanging scrolls.   Ink, silk; H:   70 in.   Daitoku-ji, Kyoto [Mason, fig. 256]

Japanese Zen Paintings:   Landscapes

Shûbun 周文

•  Reading in the Bamboo Study   1446.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 53 ¾ x 13 ½ in (136.5 x 33.6 cm). (fig. 259)

Sesshû 雪舟

•  Winter Landscape , one of four hanging scrolls of the four seasons (Shutô sansui zu 秋冬山水図) . 1470s.   18 x 11 1/2 in.   Tokyo National Museum.   [Mason, fig. 260]

•  Landscape in haboku technique (Haboku sansui zu 破墨 山水圖) 1495.   Hanging scroll, ink, paper; 58 x 13 in. Tokyo National Museum [Mason, fig. 261]

Japanese Zen Paintings:   Figure Painting

Mokuan   木庵

•  Four Sleepers.   14th century.   Hanging scroll, ink, paper; 27 1/2 x 14 in.   Maeda foundation, Tokyo. [Mason, fig. 257]

Kaô   可翁

•  Kanzan.   Before 1345.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 40 x 12 in.   Freer Gallery. [Mason, fig. 255]

Josetsu 如拙

•  Catching a Catfish with a Gourd.   c. 1413.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 44 x 30 in.   Myôshinji, Kyoto. [Mason, fig. 258]