Word: sesshu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...
...lawn. Checking on imports from the Orient (a service" the museum performs gratis for some art importers) has also tipped Fuller off to good buys, set him up to get in first bids to dealers. Thanks to Fuller, the museum today owns the only Japanese broken ink scroll by Sesshu (TIME, May 14) outside Japan; its 16th century Japanese water jar (bought by Fuller for $1,600) is a mate to one of Japan's "national treasures...
...fostered, including apprenticeship to the painter Shubun, the leading practitioner of Chinese-style paintings of his day. Not until he was 44, disciplined in hand and heart, did Oda Toyo settle down to draw in a peaceful retreat in Unkoku (Cloud Valley), near Yamaguchi, soon began signing his work Sesshu...
...Sesshu made firsthand contact with the sources of traditional landscape art during a trip to China as commercial emissary for a Japanese warlord. Once there, he studied in Zen Buddhist monasteries, turned out landscape drawings of the four seasons that amazed even the traditional classic practitioners. At Peking, he left behind one of his paintings, which for years was held up to young Chinese painters as a model of excellence. But Sesshu returned to Japan a disappointed man, noting that he had sought in vain through 400 provinces for a master, and concluded: "My only teachers of painting...
Pavilion with a View. Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting. When he happened on a particularly striking landscape, he built a "Pavilion of Heaven-Opening Picture," lingered there until he had exhausted the view...