Gakusou - Gakusou

...He was at the center of the so-called San'ami, which is the continuation of Noh, Gei, and Soami, and was active in many areas such as painting, mounting, room decoration, and renga, and he oversaw all performing arts in the Ashikaga Shogunate and the Muromachi Shogunate. His pen name was Gakuso, and although he was relatively short-lived among the San'ami, records from that time show many works related to painting, and he appears as a kokuko and kokutei. In 1480 (Bunmei 12), he gave a painting called "Viewing a Waterfall" (Nezu Museum) to Kenko Shokei (Keishoki, birth and death years unknown) of Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura, who had come to Kyoto to learn painting. ...

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…能･芸･相阿弥と続くいわゆる三阿弥の中心に位置し，その活躍は画事，表具，座敷飾，連歌といった多方面にわたり，足利将軍家および室町幕府における芸能全般をとりしきった。号を学叟といい，三阿弥の中では比較的短命であったが，当時の記録では画事に関するものが多く，国工，国手として登場している。1480年(文明12)画事習得のため上洛していた鎌倉建長寺の賢江祥啓（けんこうしようけい）(啓書記，生没年不詳)に与えた《観瀑図》(根津美術館)が現存する。…

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