Shubun
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[[Image:Shubun_-_reading_in_a_bamboo_studio.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shubun, Reading in a Bamboo Grove, dated 1446.]]
'''Tensho Shubun''' (周文) ([[1414]] – [[1463]]) was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] painter in the [[Muromachi period]] and a [[Zen Buddhist]] monk, and - for some time - abbot at the [[Shokoku-ji]] temple in [[Kyoto]].
[[Image:Shubun - looking for the ox .jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shubun - looking for the ox, ndt.]]
A student of [[Josetsu]], Shubun became one of the most influential painters of the [[suiboku|suiboku style]] ink painting alongside with [[Sesshu]], his pupil. Many landscape paintings in ink in varying quality and style are attributed to Shubun. Examples are in the [[Fujiwara]] collection and the Seikado Foundation. Famous is his realistic landscape painting ''Reading in a Bamboo Grove'' (1446, in the [[Tokyo National Museum]]).
He was chief painter to the shogun. In 1423 or 1424, he went on an official trip to Korea as part of the shogun's embassy.
[[Image:Shubun - untitled.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shubun - untitled, ndt.]]
Shubun is credited in Japan, along with Sesshu, as the greatest and most influential painter of the Muromachi period. The cultural roots in the Muromachi art lay in [[China]]'s Southern [[Song dynasty]], with [[Zen]] as a primary principle in art. Shubun is believed to have perfected the Japanese monochrome Zen painting.
==References==
*[http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0845057.html Fact Monster]
*[http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~taniguti/E-025.htm Taniguchi - rare antiques]
==External links==
*[http://www.shokoku-ji.or.jp/english/e_museum/collections/painting/jyugyuzu.html Ten Oxherding Pictures]
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