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Poets), and lived there in retirement. He reclines on the armrest at ease, wearing a yama period. In this posthumous, com-
Shisendó, also known as Józanji, still dark brown cap memorative portrait, Yúshó and his wife
stands today. His face quiet and eminent, his spirit bright Myôtei look at a painting of the Tang Chi-
Jôzan studied Confucianism from Fu- and lofty nese poet Li Bo viewing a waterfall.
jiwara Seika (1561-1619). He was accom- He communes with nature, nourishes his The greater part of the inscription at
plished in Chinese poetry and reisho (C: li inner spirit the top of the portrait, written by Yushô's
shu), the archaic, clerical style of calligra- His thoughts stubborn at age eighty, a grandson Yüchiku in 1724, gives an ac-
phy, and also painted in the Chinese hermit of three spirits count of Yushô's life. In the shorter sec-
mode. He was a friend of Hayashi Razan Who is this hermit but Rokuroku Sanjin tion at the right, Yüchiku has transcribed
(1583-1657) and Hori Kyôan (1585-1642), [Jozan's artistic pseudonym]. a letter written in 1608 by a Korean gov-
both also students of Seika. WA ernment official named Pak Tae-gün who
In this portrait, signed and sealed by sought a painting by Yüshó, whom he
Tan'yu at the lower left, Jôzan leans on an called "number one under heaven."
armrest in a relaxed manner. The pose is 41 Kaihó Yúshó and his wife Because the painting is stamped with
reminiscent of imaginary portraits of such attributed to Kaihô Yüchiku the seals Kaihô and Ddki at the lower
famous literary figures as the Tang Chi- (1654-1728) right, the seals of Yushô's son Yusetsu
nese poet Li Bo and the Nara-period Japa- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper (1598-1677), it has long been attributed to
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nese poet Hitomaro. The brushwork and 114.7 44-° (45 1/8 x 1 T^} Yusetsu. Recent scholarship has deter-
use of colors are refined, and the sitter is Edo period, early i8th century mined that these seals were added later,
presented as a man of lofty thoughts and Kaihô Hiroshi Collection, Kyoto however, and the painting is now believed
of purity of mind. The inscription, written Important Cultural Property to have been painted by Yüchiku.
in clerical-style script by Jôzan himself, is Myôtei wears a kosode robe and an
followed by his seal: Kaihô Yüshó (1533-1615) was one of the uchikake (outer kosode worn without a
most prominent painters of the Momo-

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