Josetsu

Josetsu

Josetsu (如拙) "fl."(1405 – 1423) was one of the first "suiboku" style Zen Japanese painters in the Muromachi Period (15th century). He was probably also a teacher of Shubun at the Shokoku-ji monastery in Kyoto. A Chinese immigrant, he was naturalised in 1370 and is known as 'the father of Japanese ink painting'. The best known of his paintings belongs to Taizo-in, a subtemple of Myoshinji in Kyoto, which is entitled 'Catching a Catfish with a Gourd' (c.1413). It shows a comical-looking man fishing against a background of winding river and bamboo grove. It is thought to have been inspired by a riddle set by the Ashikaga shogun, 'How do you catch a catfish with a gourd?'. It can be viewed as a piece of Zen humour, or as a koan in visual form designed to provoke the viewer into new ways of 'seeing'.

ee also

*Shubun
*Sumi-e

References

* [http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/studypages/internal/japan682/Ch6.htm Treasures of Asia: Japanese Painting by Akiyama Terukazu. Chapter 6: The Renewed Influence of Chinese Art and the Development of Monochrome Painting (13th - 16th Century)]

External links

* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9070966 Britannica article]


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