Buddhist monk and Japanese painter born in Akahama, Bitchu province, specialist in the sumi-e technique, Japanese painting based on the use of monochrome wash on paper. He lived in the Akahama monastery since he was ten years old, went to Kyoto (1440), then the capital of Japan, where he became a monk Zen Buddhist and studied painting with Shubun, before moving to the important cultural center of Yamaguchi (1460) on the island of Honshu.
He traveled through China (1467-1469) in search of new painting techniques and, back in Japan, deepened his painting technique. contrast between the angular outline of the lines and the evanescent backgrounds, as in Landscape of the four seasons (1486). With several disciples, in his studio he produced numerous paintings on the most diverse themes, but it was in the landscape genre who proved more brilliant, as in Ponte do Céu (1502-1505), his last great work, and died near Masuda, province of Iwami.
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