Title: Zen Buddhist landscape arts of early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573)
First published: 1999
Description: Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336-1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and Yoshimochi (1386-1428), as well as to major figures in various michi or Ways of linked verse, the No theatre, ink painting, rock gardens, and other arts.

By applying images of mountain retreats to their busy urban lives in the capital, these Five Mountain Zen monks provoke reconsiderations of the relation between secular and sacred and nature and culture.
Subjects: Arts, Buddhist, Arts, Japanese, Arts, Zen, Buddhism and the arts, Buddhist Arts, History and criticism, Japanese Arts, Japanese Landscape painting, Landscape painting, Japanese, Zen Arts, Zen literature, Zen poetry, Buddhism, japan, Painting, japanese, Zen buddhism, Arts zen, Arts japonais, Peinture de paysages japonaise, Littérature zen, Histoire et critique, Arts bouddhiques, Arts, Aspect religieux, Bouddhisme, ART, Reference, Performance, Kamakura-Momoyama periods
Places: Japan
Time periods: Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600
LC classification: NX676.3.Z45 P36 1999