Shūgetsu Tōkan

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Flung-Ink Landscape (Shūgetsu)
Flung-Ink Landscape (Shūgetsu)
by Shūgetsu Tōkan
Muromachi Japan · Shūgetsu Tōkan · c. 1510
A splashed-ink (haboku) landscape — mountains, hut, and traveler emerging from broad inkwashes applied almost at random. The technique's restraint was the whole point.