Obai-in (Daitoku-ji Temple)

Japanese: 黄梅院（大徳寺） - おうばいいん

…After the fall of his master, he seems to have become a painter, and in the Tensho era (1573-92), with Sase Munemasa as his tutor, he was employed by Mori Terumoto, lord of Hiroshima Castle, with a fief of 200 koku. In 1588, there is a painting called “Plum Blossoms and Crows” (Kyoto National Museum) said to be a sliding door painting at Najima Castle of Kobayakawa Takakage, who was transferred to Chikuzen in 1588, and in the same year, there are wall paintings such as “Landscape Painting,” “Seven Sages in a Bamboo Grove,” and “Reeds and Geese” at the newly built subtemple of Daitokuji Temple (protected by the Kobayakawa and Mori families), so it can be said that he had established his own unique style of painting by around the age of 40 at the latest. His style of painting was a combination of Sesshu-style ink-wash landscape painting adapted to the large-scale Momoyama style. Although the relationship between his teacher and successor is unclear, he probably studied under artists and Gaseki of the Sesshu lineage in the Chugoku and Kitakyushu regions, and under the Kano school in Kyoto. …

From Daitokuji Temple

...Shinjuan has Landscape Painting and Bird and Flower Painting (both from the Muromachi period, Important Cultural Properties) said to have been painted by Soga Jasoku, while Jukoin has paintings on the walls of the abbot's chambers (National Treasures), including Bird and Flower Painting, believed to have been painted by Kano Eitoku. The main hall of Ryugenin temple (Important Cultural Property) to the south of the temple complex is the second oldest after the main hall of Daisenin temple, and the priest's quarters at Obaiin temple (1589, Important Cultural Property) are the oldest remains of a Zen subtemple priest's quarters with a known date, and are rare in that they have survived together with the abbot's chambers (1588, Important Cultural Property) from the same period. Located to the west of the temple complex, Koto-in Temple is home to a Landscape Painting (Southern Song period, national treasure), Ryuko-in Temple is home to a Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl (Southern Song period, national treasure), a Shoin study (early Edo period, national treasure) with a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat tea room called Mitsutan (Mitsuan seat) designed by Kobori Enshu, and Koho-an Temple is home to an Ido tea bowl (named Kizaemon,) which has been known since ancient times as a famous item.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Oubai-in (Daitoku-ji Temple)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…主家滅亡後，画家となったものとみえ，天正年間(1573‐92)，佐世宗孚を寄親（よせおや）として，広島城主毛利輝元に，知行200石で召し抱えられた。1588年筑前に移封された小早川隆景の名島城の襖絵と伝える《梅に鴉図》(京都国立博物館)があり，同年新造の大徳寺塔頭（たつちゆう）黄梅院(小早川･毛利家外護)には，《山水図》《竹林七賢図》《芦雁図》などの障壁画が残るので，遅くとも40歳前後には，独自の風格ある画境を確立していたといえる。画風は雪舟流の水墨山水を，桃山的な大画面様式に適応させたもので，師承関係は明らかでないが，中国･北九州地方にあって，雪舟系統の作家･画跡に学び，京都で狩野派に学んだものであろう。…

【大徳寺】より

…真珠庵には曾我蛇足筆といわれる《山水図》《花鳥図》(ともに室町時代，重要文化財)が，聚光（じゆこう）院には狩野永徳筆とされる《花鳥図》などの方丈障壁画(国宝)がある。伽藍の南にある竜源院の本堂(重要文化財)は大仙院本堂に次ぐ古さで，黄梅院の庫裏(1589，重要文化財)は年代の判明する禅宗塔頭庫裏では最古の遺構であり，また同時期の方丈(1588，重要文化財)とそろって残る例として珍しい。伽藍の西に所在する高桐（こうとう）院には《山水図》(南宋時代，国宝)，竜光院には燿変天目茶碗(南宋時代，国宝)，小堀遠州の設計になる四畳半台目茶室密庵（みつたん）(密庵席)をもった書院(江戸初期，国宝)，孤篷（こほう）庵には古来より大名物として知られる井戸茶碗(銘喜左衛門。…

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