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Analysis Of Tensho Shubun: Reading In The Bamboo Study

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Another painting attributed to Tensho Shubun would be Reading in the Bamboo Study, painted around 1446. This painting, an example of an isolationist landscape, is also considered to be a shigajiku with a long introduction at the top of the scroll and five brief inscriptions, each by a different person. The inscriptions depict a poem. This illustration depicts a scholar’s study, almost hidden in a bamboo grove, the building just barely visible covered by a thatched roof and supporting a single large window from which a lone scholar can be seen holding what appears to be a book. Near the house in the scroll is a sharp bluff which is capped by two pine trees, one is straight while the other is bent. In this landscape scroll Shubun has solved
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