Sesson ShukeiJapanese, 1504–1589Landscape with Pavilion
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
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About the painting
At lower right, a Chinese gentleman riding a donkey and a young attendant on foot head uphill toward a cluster of luxurious buildings framed by pine and willow trees. A friend awaits them in a lakeside pavilion. Standing at the parapet, he gazes out over an expanse of mist, water, and mountain peaks—all suggested by light ink washes and areas of bare silk—toward a distant shore where a solitary fisherman rows his boat.
Sesson Shūkei was a Zen priest and painter now best known for his eccentric takes on classical Buddhist themes. The meticulous brushwork and conventional corner-weighted composition of this landscape, however, suggests that it was painted early in Sesson’s career when he was a careful student of classical Chinese painting.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- Accession number
- 2015.79.2
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain
![Egrets in Plum [right of the pair Egrets in Plum and Willow], Sesson Shūkei, second half 16th century](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/010000/600/00/10603/mia_7021788_800.jpg)
![Egrets in Willow [left of the pair Egrets in Plum and Willow], Sesson Shūkei, second half 16th century](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/001000/600/00/1602/mia_7021786_800.jpg)
