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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Sesshu

For our latest installment of Los Intelligentsia, E. Tammy Kim talks to Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo, two fixtures of the Eastside.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021

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

Or, as Sesshu Foster wonders in “Taylor’s Question”: “— how do you survive, how do you make it through?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2015

Artist Sesshu, considered by many Orientalists the greatest painter Japanese art has yet produced, is represented by seven other works in the Boston show.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Tosa school was to a degree replaced after the fifteenth century in interior painting by the schools of Sesshu and Kano.

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