haboku

Japanese painting style

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impact in Japanese visual arts

  • Hokusai: The Breaking Wave off Kanagawa
    In Japanese art: Painting and calligraphy

    …for his landscapes in the haboku (“splashed-ink”) technique, a style promulgated by Chinese Chan Buddhist painters who likened the spontaneous brushwork and intuitively understood (rather than realistically depicted) forms to the spontaneous, intuitive experience of Chan enlightenment.

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