# Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang

**Sesson Shūkei** (ca. 1504–ca. 1589)  
ca. 1555–61  
Hanging scroll; ink on paper  
Image: 27 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (69.2 × 34 cm) Overall with mounting: 60 1/2 × 18 3/8 in. (153.7 × 46.7 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.432.8. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853194).

## About this work

Sesson Shūkei painted this in about 1555–61, aged about 51. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Hanging scroll.** A painting mounted on silk with a wooden roller at the foot. It was rolled up for storage and brought out to hang for a season, a guest or an occasion.
- **Ink on paper.** Ink made from soot and animal glue, ground with water on an inkstone. A single brush can give a hair-fine line or a broad wash, and nothing can be corrected.

### [Sesson Shūkei](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/sesson-shukei)

ca. 1504–ca. 1589

Sesson was a Zen monk who worked in the provinces of eastern Japan, far from the capital at Kyoto. He admired the ink painter Sesshū and developed a vigorous, highly personal style of monochrome ink painting, marked by windswept landscapes, swirling water and lively figures. His Dragon and Tiger screens show his taste for dramatic movement. He also wrote a short treatise on painting addressed to his pupils.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Paintings
- Culture: Japan
- The artist was about 51
- Real size: about 27 × 13 in (69 × 34 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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