Art History 362:
Japanese Art

Water-Ink Painting (suiboku-ga)

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Triptych of Crane, Kannon & Monkey
Chinese, by Mu Qi (early 13th c.), S. Song dyn.
Ink and slight color on silk
H. 178 cm
In Daitoku-ji, Kyoto
Six Persimmons
Chinese, by Mu Qi (early 13th c.), S. Song dyn.
Ink on paper
W. 36.2 cm
In Daitoku-ji, Kyoto
Four Sleepers
By Mokuan Reien, 14th c.
Hanging scroll
Ink on paper
70 x 36 cm
Reading in the Bamboo Study
By Shubun, c. 1446
Hanging scroll
Ink and Color on paper
H. 136.5 cm
Detail of Reading in the Bamboo Study by Shubun
Landscape
By Soami
Muromachi Period
Ink on paper
Folding screens
Winter Landscape, c. 1470
By Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506)
Muromachi Period
Hanging scroll
Ink on paper
46 x 29 cm
Landscape in the haboku technique, 1495
By Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506)
Hanging scroll
Ink on paper
148 x33 cm
Detail of Sesshu's haboku landscape
Ama no Hashidate
By Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506)
Muromachi period
Hanging scroll
Ink and slight color on paper
h. 170 cm
Detail of Long Landscape Scroll
By Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506)
Muromachi period
Handscroll
Ink on paper
Eka showing his Severed Arm to Daruma, 1496
By Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506),br>Muromachi Period
Hanging scroll
ink and color on paper
H. 200 cm
Wind and Waves
By Sesson Shukei, 16th c.
Muromachi period
Hanging scroll
Ink and slight color on paper
H. 22.2 cm

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