Painting by Sesshu, First Discovery in 84 Years

On September 19, the Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum announced in Tokyo that a painting by Sesshū, a monk-painter of the Muromachi Period, whose whereabouts had been unknown, had been found for the first time in 84 years. The work was one of twelve fan-shaped ‘Landscape in Imitation of Xia Gui’ paintings by Sesshū. It was listed in the auction catalog of the Kyūshū Electric Railroad, the predecessor of the Nishi-Nippon Railroad, when it was put up for sale in 1933, after which it disappeared. The work was included in the exhibition ‘Sesshū hakken!’, held at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (October 31. – December 10). (Japanese)