Japanese Art and Kaihō Yūshō (Buddhism and Culture) – Modern Tokyo Times

Japanese Art and Kaihō Yūshō (Buddhism and Culture) – Modern Tokyo Times

Japanese Art and Kaihō Yūshō (Buddhism and Culture) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Buddhism profoundly shaped the inner life and artistic vision of the esteemed painter Kaihō Yūshō (1533–1615). A lay Buddhist priest, Yūshō moved through a rarefied cultural world where Zen practice, Chinese classics, garden aesthetics, Confucian ethics, poetry, literature, Shinto sensibilities, Taoist thought, and refined courtly culture quietly converged. Yet…