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Sesshū Tōyō

1420–1506 · Japanese

Born
1420 · Bitchū Province
Died
1506 · Masuda

12 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Sesshū Tōyō was a Japanese Zen monk and painter, considered a great master of Japanese ink painting. His work, which included landscapes, portraits, and bird-and-flower paintings, was inspired by Chinese landscapes and infused with Zen Buddhist beliefs, featuring flattened perspective and emphatic lines.

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Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟 等楊; c. 1420 – August 26, 1506), also known simply as Sesshū (雪舟; Japanese pronunciation: [seꜜɕ.ɕɯː]), was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting. Initially inspired by Chinese landscapes, Sesshū's work holds a distinctively Japanese style that reflects Zen Buddhist aesthetics. His prominent work captured images of landscapes, portraits, birds and flowers paintings, infused with Zen Buddhist beliefs, flattened perspective, and emphatic lines. Sesshū was born into the samurai Oda family (小田家) and trained at Shōkoku-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan, as a Zen monk. From his early childhood, Sesshū showed a talent for painting and eventually became widely revered throughout Japan as a wise, reputable Zen scholar, and the greatest painter priest of Zen-Shu. Sesshū worked in a painting atelier whilst training under Tenshō Shūbun (c. 1418–1463). But upon visiting China, his work took on a distinctive Chinese influence, merging Japanese and Chinese styles to develop his individualistic style of Zen paintings. Sesshū's influence on painting was so wide that many schools of art appointed him their founder. Sesshū's most acclaimed works are Winter Landscape (c. 1470s), Birds and Flowers (1420–1506) and Four Landscape Scrolls of the Seasons (1420–1506).

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Selected registered works by Sesshū Tōyō

Selected from 12 works by Sesshū Tōyō in the Collect24 Registry.

Sesshū Tōyō, Birds and Flowers

Sesshū Tōyō

Birds and Flowers, mid-1400s-early 1500s

Two hanging scrolls from a triptych; ink and color on silk

117 × 58 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-1102028

Sesshū Tōyō, Birds and Flowers

Sesshū Tōyō

Birds and Flowers, mid-1400s–early 1500s

Hanging scroll from a triptych; ink and color on silk

55.9 × 53.4 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-114721

Sesshū Tōyō, Birds and Flowers

Sesshū Tōyō

Birds and Flowers, mid-1400s-early 1500s

Hanging scroll from a triptych; ink and color on silk

55.9 × 53.4 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-114572

Sesshū Tōyō, Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

Sesshū Tōyō

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons, 1550–99

Six-panel folding screen, ink and color on paper

158.5 × 359.4 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-114270

Sesshū Tōyō, Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

Sesshū Tōyō

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons, second half of the 1500s

Six-panel folding screen, ink and color on paper

158.5 × 359.4 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-114002

Sesshū Tōyō, Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Sesshū Tōyō

Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, 1460s to 1550s

Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk

251.1 × 90.3 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-111690

Sesshū Tōyō, Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Sesshū Tōyō

Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, 1460s–1550s

Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk

250.8 × 90.1 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-111092

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊, Kingfisher and Bamboo

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊

Kingfisher and Bamboo, 19th century

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

26.7 × 40 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-135480

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊, Heron and Willow

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊

Heron and Willow, 18th–19th century

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

99.7 × 41 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-135479

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊, Pavilion on Mountain Stream

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊

Pavilion on Mountain Stream, 17th century

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

84.5 × 29.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-129843

Sesshu Toyo, Landscape

Sesshu Toyo

Landscape, 1420-1506

Ink on paper

178.5 × 379.8 cm

National Museum of Asian Art

C24-127044

Sesshū Tōyō, Haboku, Splashed Ink Landscape

Sesshū Tōyō

Haboku, Splashed Ink Landscape, 1400s–early 1500s

hanging scroll; ink on paper

71.9 × 26.7 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-116460

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