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Sumi-E": Sessu Toe - 8 - "Sessu. The painting of screens."
The work is based on the painting of screens by a Japanese painter
Sessyu Toyo, the creator of the first original Japanese masterpiece of landscape ink painting, who became the founder of a new trend in Japanese painting sumi-e or suibokuga (suibokuga). The word sumi-e is a combination of two Japanese words, which in translation mean "ink" (sumi) and "painting" (e). That is, it is a type of monochrome painting, similar to watercolor. Cultivated in the major Zen monasteries of Kamakura and Kyoto, it was highly appreciated by Zen artists and their patrons.