Splashed-Ink Landscape early 16th century Bokush? Sh?sh? This evocative painting by Bokush? is a variation on a celebrated landscape in the haboku (splashed-ink) technique by the great master Sessh? T?y? (1420–1506), which is now in the Tokyo National Museum. The technique, in which dark ink is applied rapidly over still?wet, light washes to create a soft, diffused effect, with neither well?defined contour lines nor explicit details, evokes an intuitive and contemplative mindset associated with Zen Buddhist spiritual practice. The artist Bokush?, a high?ranking Rinzai Zen monk, also achieved r
Splashed-Ink Landscape early 16th century Bokush? Sh?sh? This evocative painting by Bokush? is a variation on a celebrated landscape in the haboku (splashed-ink) technique by the great master Sessh? T?y? (1420–1506), which is now in the Tokyo National Museum. The technique, in which dark ink is applied rapidly over still?wet, light washes to create a soft, diffused effect, with neither well?defined contour lines nor explicit details, evokes an intuitive and contemplative mindset associated with Zen Buddhist spiritual practice. The artist Bokush?, a high?ranking Rinzai Zen monk, also achieved renown in literary circles in Kyoto and later moved to western Honsh?, where he befriended the famed ink painter Sessh?.The abbreviated, mist-laden scene is also reminiscent of the work of the thirteenth-century Chinese artist Yujian, whose ink landscape paintings were much admired in Splashed-Ink Landscape. Bokush? Sh?sh? (Japanese, active late 15th–early 16th century). Japan. early 16th century. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Muromachi period (1392–1573). Paintings
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