Sesshu Toyo Travels to Ming China
1467
The Japanese ink wash painter Sesshu sailed to China to study landscape painting at its original source, spending two years in Ming monasteries and imperial studios. He was reportedly disappointed by the quality of contemporary Ming artists but deeply influenced by the Southern Song masters' works he studied in monastic collections. Returning to Japan, he transformed suiboku-ga ink painting into something distinctly Japanese: spare, spiritually charged, and devastatingly precise in its brushwork.
In context
Also in 1467 (4 other events on record)
- Onin War Begins in Japan · East Asia · War
- Charles the Bold Becomes Duke of Burgundy · Europe · Politics
- Kyoto Devastated in Onin War · East Asia · War
- Philip the Good Dies in Bruges · Europe · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
- Before: 1465: Kaifeng Flood
- After: 1502: Wang Yangming Enlightened
Before and after in Culture
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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