mincho's

Updated: May 29, 2025

Under the name of Cho Densu the Abbot Cho he acquired perpetual fame by his paintings of Buddhist saints. But Mincho's religious pictures did not help to introduce the Sung academy to Japan. That task was reserved for Josetsu a priest of Chinese or Japanese origin who, during the second half of the fourteenth century, became the teacher of many students at the temple Shokoku-ji, in Kyoto.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era