Sesson Shukei

{{Infobox artist

|name = Sesson Shūkei
雪村周継

|image = Portrait of Sesson Shukei.jpg

|caption = Self-portrait (ICP) (Yamato Bunkakan)

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|birth_date = {{Birth-date|1504}}

|birth_place = Hitachi, Japan

|death_date = {{Death-date|c. 1589}}

|death_place = Iwashiro, Japan

|nationality = Japanese

|field = Painting

|training =

|movement = Suiboku

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Sesson Shūkei ({{langx|ja|雪村周継}}; 1504 – c. 1589), born Satake Heizō ({{langx|ja|佐竹平蔵}}) was a Japanese Zen monk and painter from the Muromachi period.

Shūkei was born a member of the Satake clan, but left after being disinherited by his father and was inducted as a monk at Shōsō-ji temple, the Satake bodaiji. He is the most important painter{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sesson-Shukei |title=Sesson Shūkei |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=2017-09-24 |quote=}} who followed the style of Sesshū Tōyō (1420-1506). On the other hand, there is a different opinion (jp) that he was not influenced or affected by Sesshū although he paid his respects to Sesshū (雪舟) by using the same Kanji, 雪 which means snow, in his name, Sesson (雪村). In any case Sesson was the master of ink painting that Ibaraki Prefecture has ever produced, ranked with Sesshū and called "Sesshū of the west, Sesson of the east". His works are the classic examples of Japanese ink painting which was imported via many artists from China. He produced many landscapes such as Eight Views of Xiaoxiang[http://jmapps.ne.jp/okayamakenbi/sakka_det.html?list_count=10&person_id=168 Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers by SESSON Shukei | Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art] and fictional characters such as {{Interlanguage link multi| Hama Xianren |2=ja|3= 蝦蟇仙人 |preserve=1}}, Li Tieguai[https://webarchives.tnm.jp/imgsearch/show/E0042375 "Gama Sennin and Tekkai Sennin" by Sesson Shukei | Tokyo National Museum Image Search] and Lü Dongbin

He travelled to Aizu at least twice to give lessons in painting to the daimyō Ashina Moriuji – first in 1546, and then again in 1561 after Moriuki's retirement.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQ8NAl2Bj-4C&q=Ashina+Moriuji&pg=PA132|title=Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection : [exhibition]|last1=Murase|first1=Miyeko|last2=N.Y.)|first2=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York|date=1975-01-01|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=9780870991363|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0UxAQAAIAAJ&q=Ashina+Moriuji|title=Archives of Asian Art|date=1982-01-01|publisher=Asia Society|language=en}}