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Sesson Shūkei

23 works

Sesson Shūkei (1504-1589) was a painter. Read more

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Six-panel folding screen with a misty ink landscape of mountains, pine trees, a boat on water, and rooftops.

Landscape

16th century

Pair of six-panel folding screens with ink landscape of mountains, pines, pavilions, waterfall and boats on water.

Landscape of the Four Seasons

About 1560

Ink painting of a gnarled plum tree with white blossoms and dark bamboo stalks and leaves on a pale hanging scroll.

Bamboo and Plum

1500s

Six-panel screen of ink gibbons climbing bare trees above rocks, waves and a pale moon on gold paper.

Gibbons in a Landscape

ca. 1570

Ink painting of dark mynah birds with open beaks mobbing a mottled owl perched on a blossoming branch.

Mynah Birds Attacking an Owl

probably 19th century

Ink landscape of rocky cliffs topped with pavilions and pines, with small boats on misty water below.

Landscape with Rocky Precipice

16th century

Ink painting of a crow perched on a rock with reeds at right, mounted as a hanging scroll with gold brocade borders.

Crow on a Rock

probably 19th century

Ink painting on a folding screen of monkeys in a snowy pine tree, with a white bird on rocks below.

Monkeys and trees on a river bank

1610

Ink painting on folding screens: a dragon in clouds above waves, and a tiger beneath bamboo beside a waterfall.

Dragon and Tiger

c. 1546-56

Six-panel folding screen with two geese beside reeds and grasses, painted in ink and muted colors on pale paper.

Two geese and grasses 雁図屏風

1300

Six-panel ink landscape screen with misty hills, a distant pagoda, trees, a small temple and a sailboat.

Landscape: hills and buildings

1300

Ink landscape on a folding fan with mountains, pine trees, rocks, a river and a moon, plus a red seal at right.

Landscape: Mountains, river, buildings and moon

1500

Ink painting of a robed Daoist figure floating over rocks and mist, with a curved trail arcing toward a creature below.

Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang

ca. 1555-61

Ink painting of a gray gibbon hanging from a branch beside tall bamboo stalks with dark leaves, on a hanging scroll.

Gibbon and Bamboo

16th century

Ink painting of a mandarin duck on water beside tall reeds, with soft gray wash and sparse brushwork.

Mandarin Duck

1500s

Monochrome ink dragon coiling through clouds above waves and rocks on a six-panel folding screen.

Dragon

1500

Ink painting on a six-panel screen of a tiger on rocks beneath bamboo, with a waterfall at right.

Tiger

1500

Six-panel screen of white egrets among rocks and willow branches, with swallows flying over misty ink-wash landscape.

Egrets in Willow [left of the pair Egrets in Plum and Willow]

Six-panel screen with ink monkeys on branches and rocks above waves, a pale moon, and a gold leaf background.

猿猴捉月図屏風

1570

Ink painting of robed figures playing music and dancing beneath tall bamboo, with a wooden fence and rock at the scene's edge

竹林七聖図

1550

Six-panel screen with white egrets in a blossoming plum tree and two carp swimming under a pale moon.

Egrets in Plum [right of the pair Egrets in Plum and Willow]

Ink painting of a Daoist master riding a rock through the sky, with a dragon rising from misty clouds below.

Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang with a Dragon

1555

Ink landscape scroll with misty mountain, lake, boatman, and a pavilion among pines on the right.

Landscape with Pavilion

Sesson Shūkei (1504-1589) was a painter. Sesson Shūkei was born in Hitachi and died in Iwashiro Province. Browse 23 works by Sesson Shūkei from 6 museums, free to download in HD. Source: Wikidata