The Politics of Reclusion: Paintineg and Power in Momoyama Japan - Kendall H. Brown - Google Books

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The Chinese themes of the Four Graybeards of Mt. Shang and the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove figure prominently in the art of Momoyama-period Japan (ca. 1575-1625). Kendall Brown proposes that the dense and multivalent implications of aesthetic reclusion…