Shubun

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Shūbun ( Japanese 周文 , life dates unknown) with the age name ( azana ) Tenshō ( 天 章 ) and the stage name ( gō ) Ekkei ( 越 渓 ) was a Japanese painter and Zen monk in the Muromachi period .

Life

Shūbun was a student of Jōsetsu , a monk-painter at Shōkoku-ji in Kyoto and probably worked at this temple himself. He took part in the delegation that Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi sent to Korea of ​​the Yi dynasty in 1423-24 . At the time of Shogun Yoshinori , he became an official painter for the Shogunate, producing landscapes and birds-and-flowers paintings for the military aristocracy and murals for the temples of Kyoto. He was also sent to Shitennō-ji (Osaka) to help produce a painting by Shōtoku Taishi that the temple lost in a fire in 1443. At that time he appears to have been appointed Treasurer (Tsūkan) of Shōkoku-ji. As a teacher of Sesshū and probably also of Sōtan (1413–1481) Shūbun played a central role in conveying Chinese ink painting ( 水墨画 suibokuga ) to Japan.

style

Like his teacher Jōsetsu, Shūbun oriented himself largely to the academic painting of the southern school , which - like Chinese painting in general - took real landscapes as inspiration, but primarily endeavored to depict the ideal landscape. Shūbun's individual style is best shown in his three-tiered mountain shapes.

Because of his fame, many pictures are attributed to Shūbun. After all, z. B. Hanging scrolls as a combination of an ink drawing and poems added above, ( 詩 画軸 shigajiku ), chronologically based on the signatures of the poets.

Attributed works

  • Mountain landscape ( 水色 巒 光 図 Suishoku rankō to ). 108.2 × 32.7 cm, approx. 1445. With lines by the Zen priests Kōsei Ryūha, Shinden Seihan and Itoko Shinchū. Nara National Museum ( National Treasure )
  • Reading in the bamboo studio ( 竹 斎 読 書 Chikusai dokusho ). 134.8 × 33.3 cm, approx. 1447. With a foreword by Jiku'un Toren and lines by Kōsei Ryūha and four other poets. Tokyo National Museum ( National Treasure )
  • The ox and his shepherd ( 十 牛 図 , Jūgyū-zu ), a cycle of images , kept in the museum of Shōkoku-ji, the Jōtenkaku bijutsukan ( 承天 閣 美術館 )

gallery

  • Kanzan and Jittoku

  • landscape

  • Landscape (detail)

  • "Four Seasons" TNM
    (left screen)

  • "Four Seasons" TNM
    (right screen)

  • "Reading in the bamboo studio" (excerpt)

literature

  • Bunkacho (Kanshu): Juyo bunkazai 10th Kaiga IV. Muromachi Suibokuga. Mainichi Shinbun, 1974.
  • I. Tanaka: Japanese Ink Painting. Shubun to Sesshu . Weatherhill / Heibonsha, New York 1972, ISBN 0-8348-1005-0 .
  • Y. Tazawa: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, Tokyo 1981, ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Shubun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 周文 (Japanese); Tenshō (majority name); 天 章 (Japanese, majority name); Ekkei (stage name); 越 渓 (Japanese, stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter and Zen monk
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century