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center front; a chapel, at center rear; and kazu, a high-ranking warrior, was put to the modes of the Song Chinese painters
adjoining rooms, the jdkan and gekan, on death following an unsuccessful rebellion Xia Gui, Yujian, Muqi, and Ma Yuan as
either side. At Reiun'in the shitchü had against his master, Hosokawa Masamoto well as in the style of the Japanese painter
twelve sliding doors in all. Eight wide pan- (1466-1507). The nun Seihan studied Zen Sôami, a senior contemporary of Mo-
els, four on the east side and four on the with Daikyü Sókyü (1468-1549), three tonobu. The set shown here, executed in
west side, depicted summer and spring, times abbot of Myóshinji, and asked him soft brushwork and muted ink tones, re-
and four narrow panels on the north side to oversee the subtemple as its resident flects the Muqi mode. The tradition of
depicted fall and winter scenes (shown priest. In 1543 Daikyü purchased a monks' basing pictorial designs on Chinese proto-
here). All of the forty-nine paintings deco- dormitory at Toganoo, west of Kyoto, and types had already been firmly established
rating the walls and doors of the /zo/5, were moved it to Reiun'in as its residential by the time of Motonobu. In 1485, for in-
remounted as hanging scrolls in 1683. ^ n quarters. At Reiun'in, the painter Kano stance, Motonobu's father Masanobu
1693, tne entrre building was restored, and Motonobu (1476-1559), who then was re- (1434-1530) had decorated the sliding door
still exists. ceiving Zen training under Daikyü, panels for the private chapel of the retired
Reiun'in, established in 1526 as a sub- painted sliding door panels and walls of Ashikaga shogun Yoshimasa (1436-1490;
temple within Myóshinji, was founded by four rooms of the building, including the cat. 6) and used several Chinese paintings
the nun Seihan (d. 1534), who was widowed shitchù. The paintings depicted land- as models.
in 1504 when her husband, Yakushiji Moto- scapes with figures, moonlight, snow, and The Reiun'in paintings show more
flowers and birds. These were executed in

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