Haboku sansui is a splashed-ink landscape painted in 1495 by the Japanese Zen monk and painter Sesshū Tōyō, made when the artist was seventy-six years old. Rendered in ink on a hanging scroll using the hatsuboku, or splashed-ink, technique, the composition suggests misty mountains, cliffs, a wine shop with a fence, and two figures in a rowing boat through washes of lighter and darker tone rather than defined outlines. Sesshū presented the scroll to his pupil Josui Sōen, inscribing it with a dedication alongside six poems contributed by fellow Zen Buddhist monks. The work is held by the Tokyo National Museum and is designated a National Treasure of Japan. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Haboku sansui (Wikipedia)
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It was made by the Japanese artist Sesshū Tōyō in 1495, in the Muromachi period.
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Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, haboku sansui-zu; Broken Ink Landscape) is a splashed-ink landscape painting on a hanging scroll.
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The ink wash painting is classified as a National Treasure of Japan and currently held by the Tokyo National Museum.
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made by the Japanese artist Sesshū Tōyō in 1495, in the Muromachi period
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Haboku sansui is a splashed-ink landscape painted in 1495 by the Japanese Zen monk and painter Sesshū Tōyō, made when the artist was seventy-six years old.
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