부산대학교 도서관

[Sukeshige; Kojirō; Jiboku] (b 1413; d 1481). Japanese Zen monk and painter. He was ordained at the age of 30 at the temple Shōkokuji in Heian (now Kyoto). Although no extant paintings can be certainly attributed to Sōtan, his biography suggests that he was one of the more important painters of the mid-15th century in Japan. He was renowned in his lifetime for his ink paintings (suibokuga), and for his polychrome bird-and-flower paintings (kachōga), which, according to contemporary records and works assigned to Sōtan, were remarkable for their animation and their vibrant colours. Records of the Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi period: 1333–1568) show that he was retained by the shogunate as a semi-professional artist and that in 1463 he took over the official stipend previously paid to his teacher, Tenshō Shūbun, of Shōkokuji. Other documents reveal that he received commissions to paint fusuma (sliding-door panels) at a number of temples and villas in the 1460s and 1470s. Sōtan is supposed to have worked in the manner of Shūbun as well as in the broad, ‘boneless’ (Jap. ...