27Jun2025 - This is turning into a journal/journey-down-memory-lane thing. I'm looking through my old photo albums, and at the same time, other memories and thoughts are popping up in my mind. This is what old(er) people do, yes? 9May2025 - I decided to leave FB, and just share my photos etc here. Thank you to the special people who check in here...(7Dec2022 - crlazlo meanderings 2 is now 2.1 - I will continue to use it as a preview/workspace for my FB posts, but I will also start organizing the many photos from my retirement years, and also start a journal/memories thing. That's the plan anyway.)

Friday, June 28, 2024

Theses images (Sesshu 1420 – 1506) popped up in my FB Memories this morning (Excellent Art Japan & Asia page on FB). I have to do some research. When I worked at an English Language School in Ube City Japan, my boss took us to a temple or garden that was associated with Sesshu? He was inspired by Chinese landscapes, but "Sesshū's work holds a distinctively Japanese style". I could be wrong considering my memory nowadays, and it was 43 years ago! - 1981. I remember being surprised and impressed because Sesshu (1420 – 1506) was one of my favorite Japanese ink landscape painters. I just checked on Wikipedia, and I read "Sesshū worked under Shūbun for 20 years before leaving Kyoto for a small provincial zen temple in western Japan."

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