Sesshu

American  

[ses-shoo] / sɛsˈʃu /

noun

1. 1420?–1506, Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and painter.

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Sesshu British  

/ ˈsɛʃuː /

noun

1. original family name Oda, also called Toyo. 1420–1506, Japanese landscape painter, who introduced the Chinese technique of ink painting on long scrolls to Japan

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Example Sentences

Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most essential L.A. poems or poetry collections, including verse from Wanda Coleman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sesshu Foster, Charles Bukowski, Bertolt Brecht and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

On May 11, the artist will be in conversation with poet Sesshu Foster at 1 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2019

Poets Sesshu Foster, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Hari Alluri read their own work and others' outdoors at the Bowtie Project as the moon rises over the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2018

So enthusiastic were the crowds that turned out to inspect the 30 Sesshu masterpieces on view that the museum broke precedent, was open on Mondays for the first time since its opening in 1937.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is to this day a question whether Japan ever produced greater artists than Sesshu and Motonobu.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)