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a haboku landscape

Sesshu: Haboku

His work is mainly in a post-Song, post-Shubun style, but one major exception is his haboku or flung-ink landscapes. It's unclear how much the wash foreground parts were flung or splashed, but certainly the darker details and the distant mountains at the top are wholly deliberate additions. We have here no outlines, just suggestions of what one is just about prepared to accept as landscape. The work here was given to his best haboku pupil, Soen.

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