Point moss method - Tentaihou (English spelling)

Japanese: 点苔法 - てんたいほう（英語表記）diǎn tāi fǎ

A technique used in Chinese painting. Ink dots (sometimes with added color) applied to mountains, rocks, earthen pots, and tree trunks can appear as moss, grass, or trees depending on how you look at them, but are used to give the picture a sense of rhythm. Dots are one of the ink-wash techniques, and in Linquan Gaozhi, the brush strokes are divided into light and light, wrinkle rubbing, rolling, brushing, rubbing, dotting, and painting. They were often used around the time of Dong Yuan, who painted Jiangnan landscapes, and were originally realistic, but dots and moss are formalized ink dots, and the term has been used since the Wu school of literati painting became popular in the late Ming Dynasty, and is explained in detail in Tang Zhiqi's Weiyan of Paintings.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国絵画における技法。山石や土坡や樹幹に施される墨点(色を加える場合もある)で，見方によって蘚苔，草，樹木となるが，むしろ画面に律動感を与えるために用いられる。点は水墨技法の一つで，《林泉高致》では筆墨の間を斡淡，皴擦（しゆんさつ），渲，刷，捽（そつ），擢，点，画に分ける。江南山水を描いた董源（とうげん）あたりから多用され，もと写実的であったが，点苔と呼ばれるものは形式化した墨点で，その呼称は明末に呉派文人画が盛行したころから用いられ，唐志契の《絵事微言》などに詳説されている。

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