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		All images and text on this Sesshu Toyo page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/sesshu_toyo.html (147 words)

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		Sesshu worked in two styles: shin, sometimes called lyric, and characterized by angular, complex brushwork; and so, which is also called hatsuboku, or "splashed ink".
		Sesshu's Long Landscape Scroll (Figure 10), in the shin style, forges forceful brushwork, arbitrarily placed forms, abrupt transitions from near to far, and exaggerated shapes of branches, into a distinctively Japanese expression.
		The Hatsuboku Landscape for Soen (Figure 11), by Sesshu, is an extreme example of splashed ink style.
	chiron.valdosta.edu /esfreelo/sesshu/default.htm (423 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sesshu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sesshu Toyo (雪舟等楊), 1420-1506, is one of the most prominent masters of suiboku (ink painting), and a Zen Buddhist priest.
		Sesshu was born in Bitchu Province in western Honshu.
		Although Sesshu remained a Buddhist monk all his life and his landscape painting was religious in inspiration, several of his other works are Zen paintings in a more specific sense.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sesshu (270 words)

	Toya Sesshu Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		At the monastery young Sesshu came under the influence of the famous painter Shubun, who was a fellow monk, and the Zen master Shunrin Suto, who became his spiritual adviser.
		Little is known about Sesshu's early artistic work prior to his journey to China (1467-1469), during which he visited Buddhist monasteries and traveled as far as Peking.
		Among the landscapes in American collections which are attributed to Sesshu, the spilled-ink-style picture in the Cleveland Museum is the most authentic as well as the finest esthetically.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/toya-sesshu (1132 words)

	Japanese art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally assumed that the "new style" of the painting, executed about 1413, refers to a more Chinese sense of deep space within the picture plane.
		The foremost artists of the Muromachi period are the priest-painters Shubun and Sesshu.
		Sesshu, unlike most artists of the period, was able to journey to China and study Chinese painting at its source.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_art (6704 words)

	Sesshu
		Shubun while still not achieving the status that Sesshu did; still is regarded as one of the two greatest masters of ink painting of the Muromachi period.
		Although the convoy of trade ships that Sesshu was leaving with didn’t depart on time, his ship did depart on time, and made it to China well before the rest of the convoy did.
		Sesshu while staying in China made a great number of sketches of Chinese landscapes; they were predominately country sides and rural areas that were the focus of his sketches.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/62059.html (530 words)

	Asian Art and Architecture: Art & Design 382/582
		Sesshu Toyo is recognized as the greatest of all Japanese painters.
		Sesshu (1420-1506) has a monochrome style and so is the successor to Shubun, though so unique is his production that it stands out for its difference from all that went before, more than as its successor.
		Sesshu was not unique in his interest in traveling around Japan to experience its physical beauties first hand.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~tart/arth382/lecture27.html (5053 words)

	Plum, Pine and Bamboo: Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The screen contains images of birds and flowers of the autumn and winter seasons, and was originally one of a pair of screens: the location of its pendant, decorated with birds and flowers of spring and summer, is unknown.
		Sesshu Toyo was celebrated during his own time in Japan as an artist who adapted Chinese painting models to create compositions with distinctive character and energy.
		Sesshu appears to have initiated in Japan the large-scale polychromatic folding screen format of bird and flower painting.
	www.ackland.org /art/exhibitions/japanart/gallery.html (171 words)

	JOSETSU
		Josetsu, or Sesshu, was a Buddhist monk and founder of a school which produced some of Japan's best painters.
		Josetsu became one of the greatest masters of ink painting and in 1466 he began to call himself Sesshu which means 'Snow Boat'.
		Sesshu went to China to study at Chinese Zen monasteries.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons5_n2/josetsu.html (96 words)

	Heaven-Opening View - TIME
		Sesshu made firsthand contact with the sources of traditional landscape art during a trip to China as commercial emissary for a Japanese warlord.
		But Sesshu returned to Japan a disappointed man, noting that he had sought in vain through 400 provinces for a master, and concluded: "My only teachers of painting are the celebrated places of Ming—the mountains, rivers, grasses and trees.
		Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,808446,00.html (456 words)

	..:: metropolis japan ..::.. art review ::..
		Sesshu's name may sound familiar because one of his most highly regarded followers, Sesson, recently had a show at the Shoto Museum in Shibuya.
		This show divides Sesshu's life and work into a series of artistic developments (his teachers, his trip to China) and different painting styles (landscapes, figures and flower, and bird paintings).
		It also deals with a previously little-known element in Sesshu's career—his early work—by proposing that the artist known as Sesso (not Sesson) is actually Sesshu (apparently Sesshu changed the kanji in his name when he was about 45 years old).
	metropolis.co.jp /tokyo/425/art.asp (591 words)

	CMA Asian Odyssey : Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons
		Sesshu went to China in 1467 and traveled about the country, visiting well-known historical sites and Chan (Zen) temples before returning two years later.
		Despite the presence on these byobu of the name "Sesshu," they are from the hand of another accom-plished but as yet anonymous follower active in the middle of the sixteenth century.
		Sesshu's name here, as on a handful of similar bird-and-flower byobu, attests to the master's identification at that time with the colorful mural paintings on the same theme emanating frin Ming dynasty China.
	www.clemusart.com /educef/asianodyssey/html/1960_173.html (437 words)

	Japanese Art \| Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons: Autumn and Winter \| F1953.95
		Sesshu's painting style also reflects Chinese sources in its emphasis on three-dimensional form and observation of the natural world.
		His interest in dramatic compositions emphasizing spatial depth can be seen in the large, gnarled branch in the foreground of the screen at left, which disappears into water and reemerges to frame a view of the distant, snow-covered mountains.
		Precise control of ink tones and brush technique, which Sesshu learned from his study of Chinese painting, enhance the expressive quality of this image.
	www.asia.si.edu /collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectId=10770 (205 words)

	Sesshu Toyo / Landscape of the Four Seasons / Muromachi period,16th century (?)
		Sesshu Toyo / Landscape of the Four Seasons / Muromachi period,16th century (?)
		This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world.
		A Buddhist priest of the Zen sect, Sesshu became famous for his unique transformation of classical Chinese painting styles of the southern Song dynasty (1127-1275).
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico893247-5535.html (349 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Toyo Sesshu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sesshu began his religious training as an acolyte attending to the eminent Zen master Shunrin Shuto (d 1463); he is known to have been in Kyoto by 1430.
		In 1465, Sesshu left Kyoto and established a painting studio in Suo (now Yamaguchi Prefect.) Scholars have attributed Sesshu’s refusal of Shubun’s mantle and hasty departure to his anti-academic stance and his preference for an itinerant lifestyle.
		It is more likely that he left Kyoto because of the growing political fragmentation preceding the Onin War (1467–77), which led to the razing of the city and to a dissemination of Kyoto’s cosmopolitan culture, with the creation of ‘little Kyotos’, regional cultural centres supported by local lords (daimyo).
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0859/T085938.asp (406 words)

	Jap Win
		When he went back to Japan, Sesshu adapted what he learnt through his personal technique, creating an original interpretation surprisingly approaching his late works to the European abstract art of the early 20th century.
		In spite of the simple title given to that work, in Sesshu's landscapes once again we see that the true essence of Zen is not a transmission of ideas but self-discovery.
		The computer elaboration of Japanese traditional instruments such as Koto and Shakuhachi, generates an unexpected and rare match of antique and modern, able to move and fascinate the listener with a delightful harmony emphasised by the idea to add the choreographic grace of the traditional Japanese dance.
	www.alya.it /forlivesi/ANALIS10.htm (504 words)

	Sesshu Toyo Posters - Art poster store, Sesshu Toyo posters and art prints collection
		If, however, you are in search for office posters, choose the ones that best correspond to the spirit of your company, its style and, at the same time, create a favorable atmosphere both for the company employees, and customers: then, the former will work harder, and the letter will buy better.
		Moreover, when decorating your room with Sesshu Toyo posters, you are creating an image of your company, and it is for you to decide, what it is going to be like.
		Since posters are much cheaper then other interior design objects, you may change the environment as often as you wish, introducing new trends into an interior you are used to.
	www.postersbuy.com /art/c20262-sesshu-toyo.html (275 words)

	Kyoto National Museum
		It is often called the "Short Scroll of Landscapes" in contrast with the so-called "Long Scroll of Landscapes," also by Sesshu, kept in the Mori Hoko-kai.
		The careful brush strokes and the strict composition reflect the influence of Xia Gui from the China's Southern Song Dynasty.
		As the brush strokes are milder than those in the Mori-family scroll, some art-historians think that this work was painted not long before Sesshu's death.
	www.kyohaku.go.jp /eng/syuzou/meihin/kaiga/suibokuga/item04.html (93 words)

	KSW : Programs : Calendar 01-2006
		Join Kearny Street Workshop and City Lights for a reading and book signing with Sesshu Foster, author of Atomik Aztex, a fantastical gonzo Aztlán mythology, where modern Aztecs and immigrant ghosts uncover blood sacrifice in Los Angeles In the alternate universe of Atomik Aztex, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders long ago.
		Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 20 years.
		Sesshu Foster will be responding to each piece during the workshop, and will also use the submissions to tailor the workshop more specifically to participants' interests and writing style and experience.
	www.kearnystreet.org /programs/calendar/2006_01.html (2978 words)

	THE CITY, Yamaguchi Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		The priest and master-painter Sesshu, born in Okayama-ken in 1420, settled in Yamaguchi at the end of the fifteenth century.
		After travelling to China to study the arts, he was asked by the daimyo Ouchi Masahiro to create a traditional garden for the grounds of his mother's summer house.
		Sesshu's Zen-inspired rock and moss design remains intact behind the temple and, if you're fortunate enough to avoid the arrival of a tour group, you'll be able to sit in quiet contemplation of the garden's simple beauty, looking for the volcano-shaped rock that symbolizes Mount Fuji.
	www.infohub.com /destinations/Asia/Japan/Yamaguchi/71696.htm (651 words)

	Powell's Books - Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster
		In the alternate universe of Sesshu Foster's glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs have conquered the European invaders, launching into the world its own culture of totemic powers and blood sacrifices.
		Zenzontli, the Keeper of the House of Darkness, has fits and visions of a world where things are run by the Europeans, and where consumerism reigns supreme.
		His poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and he is a sought-after commentator on cultural issues and practices.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0872864405 (837 words)

	Amazon.com: Atomik Aztex: Books: Sesshu Foster (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sesshu Foster's ATOMIK AZTEX is a trip like no other.
		Sesshu Foster asks us to consider, if one of these two cases is an alternate universe, which is the less humane?
		In every paragraph there's a poem, and sometimes there's a literal poem, inspired by Aztec lyric tradition, at the base of which there's something of the prophetic, giving the sense of a language on the underside of thought, born when the stars gashed their way through the blanket of the night sky.
	www.amazon.com /Atomik-Aztex-Sesshu-Foster/dp/0872864405 (2083 words)

	Poster of Sesshu's Egrets in Snow
		Here is a poster of Toyo Sesshu's Egrets in Snow for sale from AllPosters.com, the biggest, most-reputable art poster store I know.
		Note that AllPosters can frame this poster/print of Sesshu's Egrets in Snow.
		Click here to search for more posters and prints by Toyo Sesshu at AllPosters.
	www.24hourart.com /poster/Sesshu-Egrets-in-Snow.html (167 words)

	LEC14.htm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Concepts derived from Zen philosophy, including spontaniety, a love of natural materials, and asymmetry, were expressed in both the concept of the dry garden (fig.
		Although, Sesshu traveled to China and studied the work of the professional court painters there (rather than the literati painters), he returned to Japan to develop his own unique 'spashed-ink' landscape style.
		The sharp aggressive brushwork of these works by Sesshu is often attributed to the fact that he returned to Japan during the time of the Onin Wars.
	www.accd.edu /sac/vat/Faculty/schafter/LEC13.htm (1296 words)

	Sesshu Foster - Salon.com
		Sesshu Foster teaches literature and composition at Bravo Medical Magnet in East Los Angeles.
		He is the author of "City Terrace Field Manual," a finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize, and Angry Days.
		Listen to Sesshu Foster read two of his stories, recorded in New York at the benefit reading for "Premonitions - An Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry" (Kaya Press.)
	dir.salon.com /story/audio/2000/10/05/foster/index.html?sid=980052 (120 words)

	Sesshu Foster -- poets, writers & artists - poeticdiversity.org
		Sesshu Foster -- poets, writers and artists - poeticdiversity.org
		Sesshu Foster is the author of CITY TERRACE FIELD MANUAL (Kaya Press, 1996), finalist for a PEN Center West Poetry Prize, and co-editor with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton of INVOCATION L.A.: URBAN MULTICULTURAL POETRY (West End Press, 1989), which won a 1990 American Book Award.
		Sesshu Foster's work appears in the following issues of poeticdiversity
	www.poeticdiversity.org /main/poets2.php?nameCode=SesshuFoster (76 words)

	ICC Book Club
		If Ancient America had triumphed over savage capitalism, chicanismo would be the (poetical, political, and spiritual) center of it all.
		Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 20 years.
		He's also taught writing at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
	departments.oxy.edu /icc/book.html (601 words)

	Paisajes de las Cuatro Estaciones o el Rollo del Largo Paisaje. Sesshu Toyo (A Caballo Artes del Libro) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hoy adquirí este rollo que es una versión facsimilar del rollo original Paisajes de las Cuatro Estaciones, ejecutado por el pintor japonés Sesshu Toyo (Japon, 1420-1506) ejecutado originalmente con tinta negra sobre papel.
		Esta obra posee la expresividad de toda una vida de peregrinaje artistico y religioso, realizada a través de largos viajes durante los cuales Sesshu Toyo se reveló como un Zen (Budista comtemplativo).
		Para nuestros ojos occidentales, este rollo es la mas obra mas laboriosa de Sesshu Toyo, y sin duda, una gloria para el arte japonés.
	www.acaballoartesdellibro.com /2006/06/paisajes_de_las_cuatro_estacio.html (380 words)

	Poetry Santa Cruz \| Events
		Sesshu Foster and Dion Farquhar at Bookshop Santa Cruz
		Sesshu Foster is author of City Terrace Field Manual (Kaya Press, 1996), finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Pen Center West Poetry Prize, and co-editor of Invocation L.A. with Michelle Clinton and Naomi Quinonez (winner of the American Book Award, 1989).
		Poetry Santa Cruz is supported by grants from the Santa Cruz City Arts Commission and The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, and is sponsored by the William James Association, the National Writers Union Local 7, KUSP, Cabrillo College, Capitola Book Café and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
	www.baymoon.com /~poetrysantacruz/events/030610.html (262 words)

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