Artist: Heisen (Byōsen) Myōshitsu
تاریخ: 401
اندازه: 86.5cm x 33.2cm
تکنیک: Paper
A branch of plum still covered with snow but beginning to blossom, and a plum branch in full bloom are depicted in this pair of hanging scrolls, each of which bears a single crimson seal of the artist along the lower right-hand border. Plum blossoms were symbolic of the arrival of spring in both China and Japan, and were a frequent subject in Japanese seasonal poetry, but following the arrival of Chinese ink paintings of plums in Japan, they became a popular subject for Zen ink painters. In the left-hand painting, blank space surrounded by wash represents snow and the newly emerging blossoms; the right-hand scroll features more sweeping brush strokes of dark ink. Little is known about Heisen Myōshitsu, a painter mentioned in the Koga Biko (a biographical “dictionary” of artists published around 1850), save that he was a Zen monk. Like other Zen ink painters of his era, he was clearly influenced by Chinese ink painters of the Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1260–1368) dynasties.
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