Sesshū, Tōyō (1420–1506)
Japanese painter. Influenced by several Chinese landscape painters, he established a tradition of realism in landscape painting that was maintained by succeeding generations of Japanese painters.
A pupil of the Zen Buddhist monk Strubun, he visited China 1467–68, where he acquired an intimate knowledge of landscapes of the Tung dynasty. The naturalism he developed combined subtle tones and a freedom of brushwork that created vigorous marks and splashes.
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